Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 15, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 14, 2026.
Job Summary
Role Overview :
We are looking for a Forward Deployment Engineer (AI/ML/Python) to join our Customer Implementations team. You will design and build Python-based integrations, data pipelines, APIs, and AI-enabled workflows while partnering closely with customers and internal teams to ensure successful deployments. This is a highly visible, customer-facing role that combines hands-on coding, technical problem-solving, and solution delivery.
Key Responsibilities
What You'll Do
Python Development & Integrations
- Design, develop, and maintain Python-based services, APIs, and integration frameworks.
- Build scalable data ingestion, transformation, and validation pipelines.
- Develop customer-specific integrations, automations, and business workflows.
- Create reusable implementation accelerators and integration components.
AI & Intelligent Workflow Implementations
- Integrate LLM, NLP, RAG, and AI-powered capabilities into enterprise environments.
- Work alongside ML Engineers to deploy and optimize AI models in production.
- Support embedding pipelines, retrieval systems, and intelligent resolution workflows.
- Enable customers to leverage AI capabilities effectively within their existing ecosystems.
Deployment & Reliability
- Deploy and manage solutions across Azure, AWS, and GCP environments.
- Ensure reliability, scalability, observability, and performance of deployed services.
- Troubleshoot production issues, analyze logs, and perform root-cause analysis.
- Implement monitoring and operational best practices.
Customer Delivery & Solution Ownership
- Partner with Customer Success, Product, and Engineering teams to understand customer requirements.
- Translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Own end-to-end implementation and deployment for strategic enterprise customers.
- Provide technical guidance, architecture recommendations, and implementation best practices.
Technical Leadership
- Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews.
- Mentor junior engineers and share implementation best practices.
- Drive technical excellence through automation, documentation, and reusable frameworks.
- Codify successful implementation patterns into tools, playbooks, and accelerators.
Skill Requirements
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on Python development experience.
- Experience implementing AI-powered solutions, integrations, or customer-facing technical projects.
- Strong understanding of backend systems, microservices, and distributed architectures.
- Experience building REST APIs using FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
- Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
- Experience working with cloud platforms including Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Proven experience working directly with customers and managing technical implementations.
Delivery & Execution Mindset
- Ability to scope work, sequence delivery, and proactively remove blockers.
- Strong decision-making skills with the ability to balance scope, quality, and timelines.
- Willingness to contribute directly to code and technical problem-solving when needed.
- Ability to drive clarity and execution across cross-functional teams.
Other Requirements
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with LLMs, RAG architectures, NLP, or AI-powered applications.
- Knowledge of Java and enterprise integration patterns.
- Experience with Agentic AI frameworks and intelligent workflow automation.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized deployments.
- Familiarity with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or event-driven architectures.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Startup or high-growth SaaS experience.
- Open-source contributions or technical thought leadership.

