Forward Deployed AI Engineer

We are looking for a hands-on Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join a growing AI team working at the intersection of AI, commercial operations, and energy/commodities trading .

You will work directly with commercial users to identify high-value AI opportunities and design, build, and deploy agentic AI solutions that solve real business problems.

This role requires someone who can take ownership from business problem → technical solution → prototype → production , while collaborating with foundational AI and platform engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Work directly with trading and commercial teams to understand workflows and identify AI opportunities.
• Design and deploy LLM/agentic AI solutions from prototype through production.
• Build and integrate RAG, tool calling, MCP servers, data connectors, and domain-specific AI capabilities .
• Apply AI techniques including LLMs, NLP, RAG, time-series forecasting, and optimization to pricing, supply/demand, trade-flow, and operational problems.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions and communicate requirements back to engineering teams.
• Present AI capabilities and limitations to traders and senior stakeholders and drive adoption.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in AI Engineering, Software Engineering, ML, Data Science, or a related technical field.
• Strong Python development skills and solid software engineering fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, tool/function calling, and agentic workflows .
• Experience with frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or equivalent .
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms .
• Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with both technical and commercial stakeholders.

The client is particularly interested in candidates coming from:

• Oil & Gas
• Energy
• Commodities / Commodity Trading
• Power & Gas Markets
• Trading, Risk, or Market Analytics

Candidates with an understanding of commodity markets, energy flows, trading workflows, pricing, supply/demand, or commercial operations will be strongly preferred.

Ideal Candidate

A business-facing AI builder who can understand a commercial problem, identify where AI can add value, build the solution, and get it into production.