Forward Deployed Engineer-Live Operations

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity at Seaboard Foods as a Forward Deployed Engineer-Live Operations to support our Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) and Live Operations teams in our Merriam, KS office.

Responsibilities

• Primary Support and update existing Foundry applications across the entire Live/RNG business, these applications are mission critical and
• Build and develop new applications to continue to drive the business forward
• Surface high-leverage manual workflows and retire them with shipped software, delivering AI-assisted applications from prototypes to production in days rather than quarters
• Demonstrate, every sprint, the non-negotiable expectation of this seat: builder by blood. This role writes code (with AI-assisted development), runs evaluations, and pushes to production. It does not delegate the build
• Mentor citizen developers and adjacent technical staff at Seaboard Foods on agentic and AI-assisted development practices
• Present progress, results, and forward-looking plans to Seaboard Foods leadership on a recurring cadence, including quantified savings estimates, adoption metrics, and risks
• Run trainings and workshops for internal teams as new initiatives are built and deployed, so the people closest to the work can operate and extend what ships
• Stay current with emerging trends in agentic AI, ontology engineering, and AI-assisted software delivery, and assess their applicability to Seaboard Foods
• Perform additional duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of Foundry and AIP (ontology, AIP Logic, Workshop, Pipeline Builder), or equivalent enterprise data and ontology platform experience with a clear ability to ramp quickly
• Five (5) or more years of progressive experience shipping production software, with a recent and verifiable portfolio (repositories, deployed applications, agents in production)
• Hands-on experience building, evaluating, and deploying LLM-powered agents, including tool use, retrieval, and multi-step planning
• A clear point of view on what rigorous agent evaluation actually looks like
• Strong fluency in Python and TypeScript. Working command of at least one modern agent framework and one evaluation framework
• Disciplined cost and latency instincts for LLM systems, including token budgeting, caching, prompt and context optimization, and routing
• Comfortable working directly with non-technical operators, on the floor, in the office, and over the phone, to discover, scope, and validate problems

Work Environment

• The physical and work demands listed below are representative of those an employee should possess to successfully perform the essential functions of the position

Why Seaboard Foods?

• Medical, vision, and dental benefits
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off and company holidays
• Wellness program and employee pork purchase program
• Tuition reimbursement

For a complete list of our benefits, please visit our career site: here