Forward Deployed Engineer Data Engineering & GenAI

Job Title: Forward Deployed Engineer Data Engineering & GenAI Location: Washington, DC (Hybrid expected in the office/customer sites 2 3 days per week) Duration: 12+ months Must Have: Strong hands-on software engineering experience. Strong data engineering fundamentals, including ETL/ELT , data modeling, schema mapping, and data pipelines. Experience designing and integrating REST APIs and backend services. Strong Python development skills. Hands-on experience building applications using LLMs / Generative AI. Experience building at least some of: AI agents, RAG systems, tool-calling workflows, LLM- powered applications, or AI workflow automation. Ability to take an ambiguous customer requirement and independently turn it into a working technical solution. Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across applications, APIs , infrastructure, and data. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Demonstrated ability to work directly with customers and senior stakeholders. Ability to operate effectively in fast-moving environments with incomplete requirements. Ability to work in a hybrid environment with office/customer-site presence at least 2 3 days per week. Strongly Preferred: Experience working as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, Technical Consultant, or customer-facing Software/Data Engineer. Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. Experience with modern data platforms and technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, dbt , or equivalent technologies. Experience with vector databases, embeddings, retrieval systems, and modern LLM application frameworks. Experience deploying AI applications into production environments.