Jobs · Engineering · Pennsylvania

Forward Deployed Engineer, Frontier GenAI

Deloitte · Philadelphia, PA · 3 days ago
HybridEngineering$135k–$265k/yrFull-time

Job Summary

At Deloitte, Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) help clients transform AI ambition into enterprise-scale impact by pairing leading-class engineering with pod-based delivery and vertical expertise. This role puts you at the forefront of AI transformations.

Additional Information

Recruiting ends on 10/30/2026.

Work You'll Do

  • Embed with clients to identify business needs and translate high-value GenAI use cases into solutions.
  • Partner with leaders, product owners, architects, and engineers to align priorities and delivery.
  • Lead working sessions to shape solutions and drive client outcomes.
  • Prototype and deliver working AI solutions using industry expertise and emerging capabilities.
  • Contribute independently within an FDE pod while mentoring newer team members.
  • Build AI-enabled solutions, agentic platforms, and workflows across enterprise AI platforms.
  • Develop scalable AI engineering patterns, tool-use approaches, and human-in-the-loop controls.
  • Deliver production-quality code using strong practices in testing, CI/CD, logging, versioning, and documentation.
  • Design extensible functionality, support sprint sizing, and align solutions with senior team members.
  • Contribute reusable assets including code, prompt libraries, runbooks, and reference implementations.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Data Science or Engineering.
  • 3+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, data science, or analytics engineering.
  • 1+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying GenAI/LLM-powered solutions in client or production environments.
  • 1+ years of experience with one of the following Frontier GenAI Platforms: Anthropic, Google or Open AI, including hands-on experience with one of the following key platforms/products; Claude API, Claude for Enterprise, tool use, extended thinking, Claude Code, Gemini API, Vertex AI Agent Builder, Grounding, Google Workspace integration, GPT-4o, Assistants API, Responses API, OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • 1+ years of experience leading project workstreams/engagements and translating business problems into AI solutions.
  • 1+ years of experience building reliable, maintainable, and well-documented code.
  • Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
  • Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud) and common platform services (storage, compute, IAM, networking).
  • Demonstrated ability to work directly alongside client technical teams and program stakeholders in fast-paced, ambiguous delivery environments.
  • Data engineering experience with Spark, Airflow/dbt, streaming, data modeling or ML/data science background feature engineering, experimentation or model evaluation.
  • Experience with MLOps/LLMOps practices: evaluation frameworks, model monitoring, and prompt management.
  • Experience integrating LLM solutions with enterprise systems via APIs, microservices, or event-driven architectures.
  • Familiarity with security, privacy, and compliance considerations.

Similar jobs