Member of Technical Staff – Forward Deployed AI Engineer

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group is building forward-deployed AI capabilities that connect applied research judgment with software engineering delivery. In this role, you will help design, implement, and bring advanced agent systems into production for enterprise workflows, partnering closely with customer researchers and engineers throughout the journey from requirements to real-world use.

What you will do

• Build and ship production agent systems for complex enterprise workflows.
• Develop data pipelines, orchestration systems, and evaluation harnesses.
• Run and analyze post-training workflows for customer-specific models and agents.
• Work directly with customer researchers and engineers through implementation and production use.
• Assess whether performance issues originate in the model, environment, or evaluation framework.
• Translate customer workflows into robust, testable AI systems.
• Own technical deployments from implementation through production use.

What you bring

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and demonstrated ability to ship production systems.
• Hands-on experience building agent systems, AI applications, or other technical forward-deployed solutions.
• Ability to personally write and own production code.
• Strong understanding of evaluation, agent behavior, and production reliability.
• Ability to work across technologies and learn new stacks as required by the problem.
• Strong communication skills with technical enterprise stakeholders.

Location and work arrangement

The team is based in San Francisco, CA and the role is primarily on-site. Limited flexibility may be considered for exceptional candidates, particularly experienced candidates elsewhere in the United States who can spend an initial period working on site.

Seniority

• The search is open from exceptional new graduates and early-career engineers through experienced senior engineers.
• Technical ability and demonstrated ownership are more important than years of experience.