Forward Deployed Engineer - AI

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Responsibilities

• ▹Lead AI governance and discovery workshops with customers
• ▹Explain AI governance, security posture and resilience to both technical and executive audiences
• ▹Help establish AI inventories, approval workflows, risk classifications and audit evidence
• ▹Scope AI projects: identify high-value use cases, define success criteria, produce architecture outlines and signable SoWs
• ▹Build AI agents, RAG pipelines and LLM integrations (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Anthropic MCP)
• ▹Build custom tooling for regulated, cloud-restricted or air-gapped environments
• ▹Own customer delivery: run enablement sessions, support adoption, troubleshoot production issues, identify expansion opportunities

Requirements

• ▹5+ years in Software Engineering, Solutions Architecture or Technical Consulting
• ▹2+ years building modern AI/LLM solutions in production (not just experimentation)
• ▹Hands-on experience with Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, LangChain, Semantic Kernel
• ▹Experience building RAG solutions, agentic workflows and tool/function calling
• ▹Strong programming skills in Python, C# and TypeScript
• ▹Experience with Azure, AWS or GCP, including identity, networking and data services
• ▹Proven ability to scope technical projects from ambiguous business requirements
• ▹Excellent communication skills from board-level to deep technical discussions
• ▹Willingness to travel (~40%)

Nice to have

• ▹AI security experience: prompt injection, data leakage, agent permissions, AI-SPM/DSPM
• ▹Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP), agent runtimes, Pinecone, Milvus, Weaviate, Chroma
• ▹Enterprise data governance, backup, resilience or Microsoft 365 ecosystem experience
• ▹Experience delivering into regulated industries: public sector, defence, financial services, healthcare
• ▹Experience in air-gapped or sovereign cloud environments
• ▹Previous Forward Deployed Engineering, embedded consulting or customer-facing engineering experience

Soft skills

About the company

AvePoint is the global leader in data protection, unifying data security, governance and resilience to provide a trusted foundation for AI. More than 28,000 customers rely on the AvePoint Confidence Platform to secure, govern and rapidly recover data across Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and other cloud environments.