Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - GenAI / Agentic AI

Job Description

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Tiger Analytics is looking for experienced Forward Deployed Engineer with Gen AI experience to join our fast-growing advanced analytics consulting firm. Our employees bring deep expertise in Machine Learning, Data Science, and AI. We are the trusted analytics partner for multiple Fortune 500 companies, enabling them to generate business value from data. Our business value and leadership has been recognized by various market research firms, including Forrester and Gartner.

We are looking for top-notch talent as we continue to build the best global analytics consulting team in the world.

Role Overview:

We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer who thrives at the intersection of client problem-solving and hands-on AI engineering. You'll partner directly with clients and engineering teams to turn complex business challenges into production-grade GenAI and Agentic AI solutions — owning the journey from first conversation to live deployment.

Requirements

• Partner directly with clients to understand complex business problems and translate them into GenAI and Agentic AI solutions.
• Design, build, deploy, and scale LLM applications, RAG systems, AI agents, and multi-agent workflows.
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise data, APIs, databases, and business applications.
• Deploy, operate, and scale solutions in production cloud environments.
• Troubleshoot and optimize production systems for performance, scalability, reliability, security, and cost.
• Collaborate closely with architects, ML engineers, developers, and client stakeholders in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

Qualifications:

Engineering Foundation

• 7+ years in software engineering, application development, ML engineering, or AI engineering.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Solid grasp of APIs, system design, databases, cloud-native applications, and production deployments.
• JavaScript/TypeScript experience is a plus.

GenAI / Agentic AI Expertise

• Proven experience building and deploying end-to-end GenAI and/or Agentic AI solutions.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs — OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, and open-source models.
• Hands-on experience with RAG, vector databases, embeddings, tool/function calling, and AI agents.
• Experience with agent orchestration, multi-agent systems, or agentic workflows.
• Familiarity with frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Google ADK, or similar.
• Working knowledge of MCP, A2A, or similar agent integration protocols.

Cloud & Production

• Hands-on experience with at least one major hyperscaler — AWS, Azure, or GCP — including targeted expertise in:
• AWS Stack: Designing workflows via Amazon Bedrock (Claude, Llama), deploying scalable RAG using OpenSearch Serverless (Vector Engine), and configuring Bedrock Guardrails for client VPCs.
• Azure Stack: Deploying enterprise LLMs via Azure OpenAI Service (PTU optimization), building hybrid RAG systems with Azure AI Search, and orchestrating flows using Azure AI Foundry and Semantic Kernel.
• GCP Stack: Scaling applications within Vertex AI, managing production pipelines, structuring enterprise RAG with Vertex AI Vector Search + BigQuery, and building agentic flows with Gemini APIs.
• Exposure to LLM evaluation, observability, monitoring, guardrails, or LLMOps.

The FDE Mindset

• Strong customer-facing communication and sharp problem-solving instincts.
• Comfortable operating independently, navigating ambiguity, and moving fast from problem ? solution ? production.
• Equally at home with business and technical stakeholders. xhyhwjd

Benefits

This position offers an excellent opportunity for significant career development in a fast-growing and challenging entrepreneurial environment with a high degree of individual responsibility.

Tiger Analytics provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.