Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Enterprise
Scale AISan Francisco, CA; New York, NYPosted 11 March 2026
Job Description
About Scale AI
Scale AI is the data foundation for AI, helping organizations build and deploy reliable production AI applications. We partner with leading enterprises and government organizations to accelerate their AI initiatives through our data annotation platform, generative AI solutions, and enterprise AI capabilities.
Role Overview
As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer on our Enterprise team, you'll be the technical bridge between Scale AI's cutting-edge AI capabilities and our most strategic customers. You'll work with enterprise clients to understand their unique challenges, architect custom AI solutions, and ensure successful deployment and adoption of AI systems in production environments.
This is a hands-on technical role that combines deep engineering expertise with customer-facing problem solving. You'll work directly with customer engineering teams to integrate AI into their critical workflows.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Integration Deployment
Partner directly with enterprise customers to understand their technical infrastructure, data pipelines, and business requirements
Design and implement custom integrations between Scale AI's platform and customer data environments (cloud platforms, data warehouses, internal APIs)
Build robust data connectors and ETL pipelines to ingest, process, and prepare customer data for AI workflows
Deploy and configure AI models and agents within customer security and compliance boundaries
AI Agent Development
Develop production-grade AI agents tailored to customer use cases across domains like customer support, data analysis, content generation, and workflow automation
Architect multi-agent systems that orchestrate between different models, tools, and data sources
Implement evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance and iterate toward business objectives
Design human-in-the-loop workflows and feedback mechanisms for continuous agent improvement
Prompt Engineering Optimization
Create sophisticated prompt engineering strategies optimized for customer-specific domains and data
Build and maintain prompt libraries, templates, and best practices for customer use cases
Conduct systematic prompt experimentation and A/B testing to improve model outputs
Implement RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems and fine-tuning pipelines where appropriate
Technical Leadership Collaboration
Serve as the primary technical point of contact for strategic enterprise accounts
Collaborate with customer data scientists, ML engineers, and software developers to ensure smooth integration
Provide technical training and knowledge transfer to customer teams
Work closely with Scale's product and engineering teams to translate customer needs into product improvements
Document technical architectures, integration patterns, and best practices
Problem Solving Innovation
Debug complex technical issues across the entire stack, from data pipelines to model outputs
Rapidly prototype solutions to unblock customers and prove out new use cases
Stay current on the latest AI/ML research and tools, bringing innovative approaches to customer problems
Identify opportunities for productization based on common customer patterns
Required Qualifications
4+ years of software engineering experience with strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design
Production Python expertise with experience in modern ML/AI frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, HuggingFace, OpenAI API)
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern data infrastructure
Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguous requirements and rapidly iterate toward solutions
Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
Preferred Qualifications
Agent Development Wiz
Deep understanding of LLMs including prompting techniques, embeddings, and RAG architectures
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