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Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

ISOFTUnited States🇺🇸United StatesPosted 15 Sept 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
United States
Posted
Yesterday

Job Description

Key Responsibilities
Analytics Strategy & Business Discovery
  • Partner with business stakeholders and executive leaders to understand decision-making processes and critical business questions.
  • Identify opportunities where AI can improve insight generation, decision support, and overall business outcomes.
  • Translate complex business requirements into scalable analytics capabilities and AI-powered solutions.
  • Define KPIs, metrics, and success measures that support digital commerce initiatives.
AI-Powered Analytics Experiences
  • Design and develop agentic AI assistants that enable users to interact with business data through natural language.
  • Architect Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows that connect AI systems to structured and unstructured data sources.
  • Build semantic models that help AI systems understand business concepts, customer behaviors, products, metrics, and operational terminology.
  • Continuously improve answer quality, explainability, grounding, trustworthiness, and user experience.
eCommerce Decision Intelligence
  • Develop solutions supporting:
    • Customer Journey Optimization
    • Personalization
    • Product Recommendations
    • Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    • Experimentation & A/B Testing
    • Real-Time Decisioning
  • Create executive reporting and decision-support experiences.
  • Translate data-driven insights into actionable business recommendations.
AI Evaluation & Quality
  • Define evaluation frameworks for analytics-focused AI applications.
  • Assess solution quality, including accuracy, relevance, grounding, usability, and business impact.
  • Monitor adoption, performance, cost efficiency, and operational health of AI systems.
  • Establish processes for continuous improvement and quality assurance.
Platform Delivery & Collaboration
  • Collaborate closely with software engineers, data scientists, analytics professionals, and business stakeholders.
  • Develop reusable analytics frameworks, AI components, and best practices.
  • Support deployment, ongoing optimization, and adoption of AI-powered analytics solutions.

Required Qualifications
  • 7+ years of experience in AI Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Solution Architecture, or a related field.
  • Proven experience building analytics, reporting, dashboarding, or decision-support solutions.
  • Experience designing, developing, and deploying LLM-enabled applications in production environments.
  • Strong understanding of semantic modeling, business metrics, and data interpretation.
  • Experience with RAG architectures and agentic AI systems.
  • Strong stakeholder-facing discovery, consulting, and problem-solving skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate business questions into technical solutions.
  • Strong Python development and backend engineering experience.

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