Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI [latam]

Meta Meta · Big Tech · São Paulo, Brazil

This role focuses on deploying, testing, and optimizing large-scale AI solutions for enterprise clients, integrating Meta's foundation models into their core products. Responsibilities include technical scoping, production handoff, building integrations, system optimization for performance and latency, developing reusable tooling, and implementing evaluation frameworks. The role requires strong software engineering skills, experience with cloud platforms, and the ability to collaborate with external partners and internal engineering teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Embed directly with client engineering teams to manage the complete deployment lifecycle of AI solutions, from technical scoping to production handoff.
  2. Design and implement robust connections between Meta's AI platforms and complex client systems (e.g., CRMs, inventory systems, messaging infrastructure), configuring workflows to meet specific partner needs.
  3. Architect scalable solutions, analyze code quality, and resolve complex performance and latency bottlenecks in real-world AI workloads.
  4. Act as a force-multiplier by turning one-off deployment patterns into reusable software components and playbooks that accelerate future work.
  5. Build and configure rigorous testing frameworks tailored to client environments to ensure AI reliability, safety, and output quality.

Skills

Required

  • Experience building and scaling large-scale software systems
  • Experience deploying complex AI applications
  • Experience collaborating directly with external partners, enterprise clients, or cross-functional teams
  • Experience designing and implementing scalable solutions on major cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP)
  • Experience leveraging core cloud services (compute, storage, machine learning) to optimize AI workflows, reduce inference latency, and manage compute costs
  • Experience implementing rigorous testing and evaluation frameworks for AI systems (e.g., establishing quality benchmarks, mitigating hallucinations, conducting safety reviews)
  • Demonstrated ability to independently lead technical projects and translate field challenges into actionable feedback
  • Programming experience in a relevant language
  • Experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design and unit testing techniques

Nice to have

  • Experience in regulated industries (financial services, insurance, healthcare) or navigating enterprise compliance requirements (SOC2, data residency, privacy frameworks)
  • Portuguese language skills

What the JD emphasized

  • deploying complex AI applications from proof-of-concept into production environments
  • Experience implementing rigorous testing and evaluation frameworks for AI systems
  • Experience in regulated industries (financial services, insurance, healthcare) or navigating enterprise compliance requirements (SOC2, data residency, privacy frameworks)

Other signals

  • deploying large-scale AI solutions
  • reducing latency
  • resolving interoperability issues
  • building secure data connectors
  • implementing evaluation frameworks for AI systems