Staff Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)
Invisible Technologies2 months ago
Base Salary
$210k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with delivery and executive stakeholders to scope, design, and lead implementation of AI-driven solutions.
- Identify transformational opportunities in ambiguous workflows and turn them into repeatable systems.
- Lead architecture design and trade-off discussions involving performance, scalability, cost, and reliability.
- Own projects from the initial discovery call through deployment and post-launch iteration.
- Build shared infrastructure, reusable components, and internal playbooks.
- Deliver solutions directly to clients and coordinate internal teams throughout implementation.
- Coach and mentor mid-level engineers and help shape forward-deployed AI engineering practices.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building data, ML, or backend systems.
- Deep proficiency in Python and hands-on experience with Hugging Face, LangChain, OpenAI, Pinecone, and related ecosystems.
- Experience with full-stack and API-based deployment using Docker, FastAPI, Kubernetes, GCP, and AWS.
- Experience with workflow orchestration libraries, Kafka-based pub/sub systems, and schema governance.
- Expertise in data governance and operations, including Unity Catalog, policy management, cluster and job orchestration, data contracts, quality enforcement, Delta/ETL pipelines, and replay processes.
- Strong product and system design judgment with the ability to translate business needs into technical architecture.
- Experience building usable systems from messy data and ambiguous requirements.
- Strong communication and client-facing skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience owning projects from scoping through deployment in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
- Willingness to provide customer on-call support and travel approximately 25–50% of the time.
- Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with office-based collaboration expectations varying by location.
- Requires approximately 25–50% travel, including short-notice trips across North America and occasional international client roll-outs.
- May require customer on-call availability when situations arise.
- The posting is part of an ongoing candidate pipeline and may support current or future openings.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Invisible Technologies
Invisible Technologies makes AI work. Our platform cleans, labels, and structures company data so it’s ready for AI. It adapts models to each business and adds human expertise when needed — the same approach used to improve models for over 80% of the world’s top AI companies, including Microsoft, AWS, and Cohere. Our successes span industries — from supply chain automation for Swiss Gear, to AI-enabled naval simulations with SAIC, and validating NBA draft picks for the Charlotte Hornets. Invisible, profitable for over half a decade, reached $134m in revenue and ranked #2 fastest-growing AI company in 2024, and recently raised $100M to advance its platform technology.