- Company Name
- Photon
- Job Title
- Forward Deployment Engineer - Agentic AI
- Job Description
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**Job Title**: Forward Deployment Engineer - Agentic AI
**Role Summary**: Deploy and optimize AI platforms for enterprises, ensuring robust integration, model scalability, and compliance. Lead technical implementations, collaborate with customer engineering teams, and share knowledge to accelerate future projects.
**Expactations**: 10+ years in software/infrastructure engineering or Agentic AI. Proficient in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, backend languages. Expert in Agent development, orchestration, and tools like Lang Chain, Lang Watch, MCP, Vertex AI, OpenAI. Experience in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, serverless frameworks. Deep understanding of API design, distributed systems, data workflows. Strong DevOps and compliance knowledge.
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Implement end-to-end deployment of AI platforms, integrating customer data/APIs/systems.
- Deploy and scale ML models with performance, reliability, and monitoring.
- Automate deployments via CI/CD, IaC (Terraform, Helm, Ansible), Docker, Kubernetes.
- Build custom SDKs, APIs, microservices for data preprocessing, feature engineering, real-time inference.
- Optimize model serving, caching, and resource allocation for latency/cost efficiency.
- Architect solutions meeting resilience, security, and compliance (SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR).
- Resolve technical challenges in customer deployments and provide feedback to product/engineering teams.
- Develop reusable templates, scripts, and playbooks for deployment acceleration.
- Mentor peers in DevOps, ML systems engineering, and advanced deployment strategies.
**Required Skills**:
- CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
- Monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).
- Performance profiling, scaling strategies, SRE principles.
- Enterprise SaaS security (SSO, RBAC, encryption, API security).
- Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), serverless.
- Lang Chain, Lang Watch, MCP, Vertex AI, OpenAI.
- API design, distributed systems, data engineering.
**Required Education & Certifications**: Not specified.