AI Forward deployment Engineer

Job Title: AI Forward Deployment Engineer

Location - Minnetonka, MN (Onsite)

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Forward Deployment Engineer with strong hands-on software development experience to design, build, deploy, and customize AI-driven solutions for enterprise customers. The ideal candidate will combine expertise in AI/ML technologies, full-stack development, and customer-facing solution delivery to rapidly develop and deploy scalable applications in production environments.

This role requires a strong engineer who can work directly with stakeholders, understand complex business requirements, and translate them into innovative, production-ready solutions. The candidate should be comfortable working across the full technology stack, with deep experience in React, Python, MongoDB/Oracle, and modern AI/ML frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy end-to-end AI-powered applications and solutions for enterprise customers.
• Collaborate directly with business stakeholders, product teams, and customers to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Build responsive and scalable front-end applications using React.js and modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks.
• Develop backend services, APIs, and microservices using Python.
• Integrate AI/ML models into production applications and optimize model performance.
• Design and implement data pipelines and database solutions using MongoDB and/or Oracle.
• Develop reusable frameworks, accelerators, and components to improve deployment efficiency.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex technical issues across application, database, and infrastructure layers.
• Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to solution design, scalability, security, and performance improvements.
• Work closely with DevOps and cloud teams to support application deployment and monitoring.
• Provide technical leadership and best practices for software engineering, code quality, and system reliability.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Strong experience developing enterprise-grade solutions from design through production deployment.
• Proficiency in Python for backend development and API creation.
• Strong front-end development experience using React.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Experience integrating and deploying AI/ML solutions in real-world business applications.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB and/or Oracle Database.
• Experience developing RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed applications.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and system architecture.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile development methodologies.
• Experience with Generative AI technologies including LLMs, RAG architectures, AI agents, and prompt engineering.
• Familiarity with frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.