Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. webAI is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer to support their Public Sector initiatives focused on building and optimizing production-ready AI systems for secure and distributed environments. The role involves transforming prototype models into scalable, efficient, and reliable production systems while collaborating closely with customers to deploy and maintain AI solutions in production environments.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with customers to scope, deploy, and maintain AI solutions in production environments
- Design, develop, and deploy agentic workflows to orchestrate multi-step reasoning, tool use, and decision-making across production systems
- Debug and optimize data pipelines and AI systems running on customer networks
- Translate complex, often ambiguous customer requirements into well-scoped technical solutions
- Work across the stack—from model inference on consumer hardware to infrastructure automation
- Read hardware schematics/logs to identify performance bottlenecks and suggest improvements
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise clients, representing the engineering team externally
- Contribute feedback and insight to internal teams to continuously improve product robustness and usability
Skills
- 5+ years of combined experience in software engineering and machine learning
- Active US Security clearance
- Proven track record of deploying and maintaining machine learning/AI systems in production
- Strong expertise in ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, JAX, etc
- Experience debugging complex systems involving data pipelines, model inference, and hardware interaction
- Exceptional communication skills; able to challenge vague requirements and turn them into actionable plans
- Comfortable working in dynamic environments with high customer exposure
- Experience deploying models on edge devices or consumer hardware
- Familiarity with distributed systems, DevOps tooling, and performance tuning
- Prior experience in a customer-facing engineering role
- Proficiency in developing full stack applications
- Knowledge of privacy-preserving AI and secure compute environments
- Master's degree in a relevant technical discipline
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits package
- 401(k) match
- Equity options
- $200/month Health & Wellness stipend
- Continuing Education support
- $500/year Function Health subscription
- Free parking for in-office employees
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)
- Parental leave for eligible employees
- Supplemental life insurance
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