Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Baker Tilly1 day ago
Portland, OR, USA +7 moreSenior
Base Salary
$205k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain AI agents and multi-step workflows with orchestration, context and memory management, tool integration, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and failure handling.
- Develop production-quality full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, data models, dashboards, conversational interfaces, and user-facing workflows.
- Collaborate with Tax, Assurance, and Advisory professionals and subject matter experts to translate business processes and requirements into technical solutions.
- Create evaluation frameworks, testing criteria, performance baselines, automated tests, regression suites, and ground-truth datasets to validate solution quality.
- Own solutions from development through deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, ongoing enhancements, and user adoption.
- Integrate AI applications with enterprise systems, APIs, and governed data sources using secure access controls and data contracts.
- Build reusable engineering components, documentation, technical patterns, and operational practices for the Agent Factory.
- Partner with global engineering, product, design, data platform, and enterprise architecture teams and support knowledge transfer from external engineering partners.
- Use user feedback, application performance data, emerging AI technologies, and evaluation results to improve productivity, reliability, and business value.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.
- At least five years of hands-on software engineering experience delivering multiple production-quality applications or products from concept through deployment.
- Experience deploying at least one LLM-powered feature or application to real users.
- Experience working with domain experts, business stakeholders, or customers to translate requirements into technical solutions and own delivered outcomes.
- Strong full-stack engineering experience with backend services, data models, APIs, and modern user-facing applications.
- Deep proficiency in at least one mainstream programming language such as Python, TypeScript, Go, or Java; familiarity with Python and TypeScript is preferred.
- Experience with system design, application architecture, automated testing, debugging, performance optimization, and scalable maintainable systems.
- Experience developing and integrating web applications, APIs, authentication mechanisms, and secure enterprise services.
- Ability to validate technical solutions through automated testing, benchmarks, experiments, evaluation frameworks, or A/B testing.
- Familiarity with LLM applications, retrieval-augmented generation, AI evaluation methodologies, or Model Context Protocol is preferred.
- Preferred experience includes cloud application development, Microsoft Azure, containers, PostgreSQL, and React.
- Experience in professional services, regulated industries, or environments serving specialized business users is preferred.
- Strong written and verbal communication, analytical thinking, technical judgment, problem-solving, prioritization, adaptability, and independent execution skills.
- Experience using AI-assisted and agentic development tools, or willingness to incorporate them into daily development.
Benefits
- Comprehensive compensation and benefits package for eligible employees.
- The posting discusses work location requirements with the Baker Tilly talent acquisition professional.
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Baker Tilly
Baker Tilly provides audit/assurance, tax, and advisory services—including analytics, governance risk and compliance, and government contracting—to companies, public sector entities, and nonprofits. Headquartered in Chicago and organized as a partnership, it operates coast to coast in the U.S. and is an independent member of Baker Tilly International, with U.S. attest services delivered by Baker Tilly US, LLP and tax and advisory by Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP.