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Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer - Industrial AI Deployments

Full-time

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group

SF Bay Area California Fully On-site Approximately 25% Domestic Travel

We are seeking a technical Industrial AI Deployment Engineer Enterprise Integrations to bring advanced AI systems into production environments for large industrial enterprise customers.

The Opportunity

This is a hands-on software engineering role combining customer-facing deployment work with direct ownership of integrations data flows and AI-enabled workflows.

Key Responsibilities

  • Embed with enterprise customers to deploy AI-powered systems into live operational environments.
  • Build and maintain integrations using APIs webhooks ETL processes and enterprise data systems.
  • Integrate with ERP CMMS ticketing knowledge-management and enterprise service platforms.
  • Work with systems such as SAP ServiceNow and related enterprise platforms where required by the customer environment.
  • Build agentic AI and/or retrieval-augmented generation capabilities as part of customer solutions.
  • Translate ambiguous operational requirements into shipped technical solutions.
  • Partner directly with customer engineering and operational teams.

Required Qualifications

  • Approximately 1 to 5 years of hands-on software engineering implementation engineering solutions engineering or forward-deployed engineering experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to personally write and ship production code.
  • Experience integrating software with complex customer systems.
  • Hands-on experience with modern AI applications agentic systems and/or RAG solutions.
  • Strong customer-facing communication skills combined with technical depth.
  • Willingness to travel domestically approximately 25% of the time.

Candidate Profile

This opportunity is best suited to engineers who enjoy operating between product development and customer deployment. Pure pre-sales non-coding consulting or platform-configuration-only backgrounds are not aligned with the role.

Work Arrangement

Fully in person in the San Francisco Bay Area with domestic customer travel as required.

Work Authorization

Candidates must be able to work in the United States. Certain sponsorship and visa-transfer scenarios may be considered for candidates already located in the United States.

Vacancy posted 5 days ago
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