Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Applications)

DescriptionKforce has a client that is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Applications) in Charlotte, NC. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you embed with a business team, learn how it works, and ship an AI-powered application that the team uses in production.What you build:* Full-stack applications on our stack* Engineer the context that an LLM reasons over to generate insights and reports* Agentic workflows that improve business processes: agents handle multi-step work such as gathering data, drafting outputs and routing for approval, and people review the decisions that matterHow you build:* With coding agents: Claude Code and Codex are your primary build tools* With guardrails: You enforce quality through automated tests, test coverage and our existing quality gates* With the business, every day: You refine, build and demo with users dailyRequirements* Master's degree in Computer Science from a top-100 US program, as ranked by* 6+ years of professional software engineering on production applications* Production experience in Java/Spring Boot or .NET (C#)* Production experience in TypeScript with Angular or NestJS* CSRankings* Designing and building REST APIs, and delivering cloud-native applications (containers, CI/CD, observability)* Uses Claude Code or Codex or other coding harnesses daily to build production software* Has led requirements sessions and demos directly with business stakeholders* Excellent verbal and written communication skills; Should be able to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical business leaders, both in person and in writing* Experience working in an Agile team, especially short build; Demo; Feedback cycles with business usersJob TypeContractCompensation70 - $80