First seen by Alion on Nov 13, 2026.
We are looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer with strong backend engineering skills and hands-on experience building and deploying LLM/GenAI-powered applications in production.
In this role, you will work closely with enterprise customers to understand their business requirements, design AI-powered solutions, and take ownership of end-to-end deployments. You will combine software engineering, AI agent development, system integration, and customer-facing problem-solving to deliver scalable solutions in real-world environments.
The ideal candidate should be comfortable working in ambiguous environments, independently owning technical implementations, and interacting with senior enterprise stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Own complex, high-impact customer deployments end-to-end, from requirement gathering and solution design to integration, production rollout, and post-deployment optimisation.
- Design, develop, and deploy AI agents for Voice AI and in-app customer-facing workflows.
- Build and optimise LLM-powered applications involving RAG, AI agents, tool calling, and structured outputs.
- Develop and refine system prompts, conversation flows, guardrails, and agent logic to improve response quality and reliability.
- Optimise prompts and conversational experiences for multilingual use cases, edge cases, and real-world customer interactions.
- Lead technical integrations with customer systems using APIs, webhooks, SDKs, and telephony integrations.
- Ensure production reliability, performance, latency optimisation, and monitoring of deployed AI solutions.
- Act as the primary technical point of contact for enterprise customers, leading solution discussions, product demonstrations, and technical workshops.
- Work closely with product and engineering teams to translate customer requirements and implementation feedback into platform improvements.
- Establish deployment standards, technical documentation, and best practices for forward deployment.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and contribute to improving engineering and delivery standards.
- Support customer deployments through occasional travel or on-site engagement as required.
Requirements:
- 4-6 years of experience in backend engineering, software development, or forward-deployed engineering.
- Strong proficiency in Python and backend development.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM/GenAI applications in production.
- Strong understanding of AI agents, RAG, tool calling, and prompt engineering.
- Experience with LLMOps, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and conversation design.
- Strong knowledge of REST APIs, webhooks, SDK integrations, and asynchronous processing.
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
- Ability to troubleshoot production issues related to latency, performance, and reliability.
- Experience handling enterprise customers and end-to-end technical deployments.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- BFSI, Fintech, or Insurance domain experience is preferred.
- Ability to independently own projects and translate business requirements into production-ready solutions.
Skills
AI Agents, APIs, AWS, Gen AI, LLM, Prompt Engineering, Python, RAG, Webhooks

