Forward Deployed Engineer

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Redmond, WA +4 · Software Engineering

This role focuses on developing user-facing Generative AI features and building AI agent platforms, requiring a blend of AI knowledge and software development expertise to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions for enterprise clients.

What you'd actually do

  1. This role involves crafting user-facing features powered by Generative AI while taking full ownership of their development from inception to delivery, ensuring exceptional quality and seamless implementation.
  2. You’ll be working closely with some of the world’s most recognizable brands, helping them catapult into the AI transformation era.
  3. Ideal candidates will have a balanced combination of theoretical AI knowledge and practical software development experience, enabling them to design, develop, and deploy sophisticated software systems at scale, with an experimentation and iterative mindset.
  4. Candidates for this role should also demonstrate customer passion, a bias for action, and an ability to work effectively across organizational boundaries.
  5. Come and build the next generation of AI agents!

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
  • Competence with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Solid understanding and successful demonstration of system security, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Practical Experience with AI/LLMs: Experience designing and implementing ML/LLM-based solutions in production environments.
  • Experience leveraging generative AI technologies to develop innovative and user-focused product features.
  • Capable of optimizing, prompting and finetuning AI-based solutions for performance, accuracy, and scalability.
  • Experience coaching and growing engineers within the team.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI agents

Other signals

  • crafting user-facing features powered by Generative AI
  • design, develop, and deploy sophisticated software systems at scale
  • build the next generation of AI agents