Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Resultant · Chicago, IL
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Jul 12, 2026
Chicago, IL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on engineering and consulting role in which the engineer embeds with client teams to take ambiguous problems through the full lifecycle — from discovery and prototyping to production deployment and operational handoff. The work centers on building agentic AI, data pipelines, APIs, and cloud-based software solutions, while also handling stakeholder communication, adoption enablement, and knowledge transfer. Suited to a seasoned technologist with at least a decade of delivery experience and several years working directly with clients across public and private sectors.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 7,900 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 4,750–11,900
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title 'Forward Deployed Engineer' carries no standard seniority level word, so advertised seniority is Unspecified; however, the 10+ years overall and 5+ years consulting requirements, combined with end-to-end ownership and client-facing leadership scope, firmly support a Senior classification.
The role is genuinely broad — spanning agentic AI, software development, data engineering, and ML — making SOC classification difficult. 15-1252 Software Developers is chosen as primary because the JD emphasizes writing production code, software design, and application delivery; 15-2051 Data Scientists is the runner-up given the strong ML/AI modeling emphasis.
The JD explicitly states 'We care more about evidence that you can do this work than about a particular degree, pedigree, or exact vendor stack,' so the degree requirement is set to None.
No specific agentic framework is named (e.g. LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI); the requirement is for hands-on experience with 'at least one modern framework.' The skill is captured generically as 'agentic AI frameworks.'
Cloud platform requirement names AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud as interchangeable options ('at least one'); AWS is listed as primary with the others as alternatives.
No compensation figures are disclosed in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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