SmartsheetRemote
Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Remote Eligible)
United States of America
Full Time
1 week ago
$228,000 - $245,000 USD
No H1B
Key skills
Production Software EngineeringAI/ML DeploymentPythonTypeScriptJavaScriptEnterprise Technical EngagementsCustomer Relationship ManagementSecurity ReviewsProduction Systems DeliveryLarge Language Models (LLM)Multi-agent OrchestrationRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) OptimizationEvaluation FrameworksAgent Deployment at ScaleSystem ArchitectureEnterprise SystemsCloud InfrastructureAI ServicesTraining Materials CreationAIMLLLMRAGLangChainDatabricksAWSBedrockMentoringCommunication
About this role
Smartsheet is a leading company in work management solutions, and they are seeking a Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer to lead complex AI deployments. The role involves owning the full engagement lifecycle, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring the quality of deployment kits for AI solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Lead complex, multi-system AI deployments end-to-end scope, architect, build, validate, and manage the customer relationship throughout
- Own the AI workshop program for your pod, customize modules per customer, lead technical sessions, translate outputs into production requirements, evolve content from field learning
- Architect multi-agent solutions selecting the right coordination pattern for each customer’s workflow characteristics and compliance requirements
- Design client-specific and industry-specific MCP resource packs that serve personalized intelligence from the server so every connected AI surface gets smarter for that customer automatically
- Own Deployment Kit quality for your pod. If a kit is not documented well enough for a solutions consultant with no engineering background to follow, it isn’t done
- Lead Solutions Enablement Sprints: transfer AI deployment patterns to solutions consultants and partners with training materials and certification criteria
- Drive the intelligence loop: author strategic memos, present field findings weekly, contribute Agent Bricks and Skills, file RFCs for platform improvements
- Mentor junior FDEs on customer engagements, code reviews, and Deployment Kit quality
Requirements:
- 6–10+ years production software engineering, including 3+ years deploying AI/ML to production
- Deep Python; strong TypeScript/JavaScript
- Proven track record leading complex enterprise technical engagements
- You've managed customer relationships, navigated security reviews, and delivered production systems organizations depend on
- Deep production LLM experience: multi-agent orchestration, MCP/tool-use, RAG optimization, evaluation frameworks, agent deployment at scale
- System architecture expertise spanning enterprise systems, cloud infrastructure, and AI services explainable to a CIO and a junior engineer
- Demonstrated ability to create reusable technical assets that others use in production
- You think in platforms, not projects
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Architecture documents, runbooks, strategic memos, training materials
- Your Deployment Kits are your portfolio
- You leave teams better than you found them
- You make sure the people you work with understand what was built, why it works, and how to own it without you
- Ability to travel. This role requires domestic and international travel approximately 25–50% of the time
- Legally eligible to work in the U.S. on an ongoing basis
- BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent industry experience
- Experience founding or scaling an FDE/solutions engineering function
- Technical founder background
- Databricks, AWS Bedrock, or Temporal experience
- Deep domain knowledge in healthcare, financial services, or government
- Agent framework contributions (Strands SDK, LangChain, open-source MCP servers)