Lead Forward Deployed AI Engineer

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⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $149k - $248k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤖 AI Engineer

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Guidehouse

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2018

🏥 Healthcare

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

💰 Grant on 2023-02

Healthcare • Defense • Logistics

Guidehouse is a global consultancy offering advisory, digital, and managed services across commercial and public sectors. It is purpose-built to support industries such as national security, financial services, healthcare, energy, and infrastructure. Guidehouse collaborates with leaders to navigate complexity and drives transformational changes that impact the future. Their expertise spans data analytics, digital technologies, risk management, and more, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and innovation.

📋 Description

• Lead forward deployed engineering engagements with clients and multidisciplinary delivery teams • Understand complex workflows and translate business and mission needs into working AI solutions • Design, prototype, test, and deploy generative AI and agentic AI applications • Build AI solutions using large language models, APIs, developer tooling, and enterprise AI platforms • Design and implement MCP, A2A, multi-agent, RAG, tool-use, structured-output, orchestration, context-management, and human-review patterns • Lead technical discovery sessions, architecture discussions, demonstrations, and hands-on solution working sessions • Partner with users throughout implementation to gather feedback, diagnose challenges, refine solutions, and drive adoption • Architect and maintain integrations with internal and external systems using APIs, services, data pipelines, and modern application practices • Implement testing, evaluation, logging, monitoring, and observability for AI applications and agentic workflows • Diagnose technical and integration issues across applications, models, agents, APIs, data, and infrastructure • Establish reusable technical patterns and accelerators • Serve as a senior technical advisor to clients • Communicate technical concepts, solution options, risks, trade-offs, architecture decisions, and recommendations • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through technical coaching, code review, pairing, architecture guidance, and delivery mentorship • Develop FDE playbooks, engineering standards, solution patterns, accelerators, and implementation best practices • Foster experimentation, continuous learning, collaboration, technical excellence, and responsible AI development • Capture and share lessons learned across engagements

🎯 Requirements

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust • Seven (7+) or more years of overall work experience • Experience in software engineering, data engineering, AI/ML engineering, solution engineering, or a related technical role • Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Forward Deployed AI Engineer, or comparable client-embedded engineering role • Hands-on experience designing and building generative AI, large language model, or agentic AI solutions • Hands-on experience with Claude APIs, Claude for Enterprise, Claude Code, tool use, Custom Skills, or comparable enterprise large language model platforms and developer tooling • Hands-on experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) • Hands-on experience with agent-to-agent (A2A) and multi-agent solution patterns • Hands-on experience designing and implementing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions, including enterprise knowledge retrieval, embeddings, vector search, and grounding • Hands-on experience with tool use, structured outputs, context management, orchestration, and human-in-the-loop patterns • Strong software engineering experience using modern programming languages, APIs, services, and application development frameworks • Experience integrating AI applications and agents with enterprise systems, databases, APIs, tools, and data sources • Experience developing reliable, maintainable, testable, and well-documented production code • Demonstrated experience mentoring and developing engineers • Strong client communication and consulting skills • Demonstrated ability to lead technical discovery and translate ambiguous business or mission problems into actionable technical requirements and working solutions • Demonstrated experience leading complex technical implementations and providing technical direction • Demonstrated ability to think innovatively and develop creative technical solutions • Strong written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and interpersonal communication skills • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university is listed as nice to have, not required • Must be able to travel up to 10%

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance • Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays • Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus • Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance • 401(k) Retirement Plan • Basic Life & Supplemental Life • Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability • Student Loan PayDown • Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities • Skills Development & Certifications • Employee Referral Program • Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach • Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program • Mobility Stipend • Flexible benefits package

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