Forward Deployed Engineer
Seekr · Austin, TX · 1 wk ago
HybridEngineering$170k/yrFull-time
About the role
Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) work alongside our clients, embedding with their teams to tackle their hardest technical and operational problems. You won’t just design solutions — you’ll deploy AI systems in production, applying large language models, fine-tuning, and agentic workflows to unlock real business value. With SeekrFlow, our platform for trustworthy, document-grounded, agentic AI, you’ll transform how organizations leverage their data — building solutions that are explainable, scalable, and production-ready. As an FDE, you’ll be on the front lines of AI adoption, shaping how enterprises bring advanced AI into their most critical missions.
Responsibilities
- Operationalizing AI PoCs by transforming demos and prototypes into robust, production-grade AI systems.
- Deploying SeekrFlow and agent applications intro customer-managed environments, containerizing and orchestrating them across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem deployments (AWS, Azure, GCP, private cloud).
- Packaging, configuring, and releasing SeekrFlow's containerized microservices into customer Kubernetes clusters using Docker and Helm, and managing versioned upgrades and rollbacks.
- Configuring authorization and identity for the platform, including SSO (SAML / OIDC) and service-to-service authentication.
- Designing and deploying data pipelines and retrieval frameworks that prepare enterprise data for LLM training, fine-tuning, and RAG-based applications.
- Fine-tuning, evaluating, and deploying large language models and agentic workflows, ensuring outputs remain grounded, explainable, and compliant.
- Codifying best practices into reusable playbooks, evaluation frameworks, and deployment accelerators that scale AI adoption across industries.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or Data Science (advanced degree a plus).
- 6+ years in software, platform, or infrastructure engineering, with a track record of deploying operating production systems in customer or enterprise envrionments.