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Every enterprise has a demo that worked once. You build the one that is still working in month six.\n\nYour Mission: The Role\n\nOutcome Engineeringis how Searce turns AI from a pilot into a line on the P&L. As a Forward-Deployed AI Engineer, you own the whole chain: scope the outcome, prove it with working software, harden it for production, and stay until the number moves.\nYou will build with the best models from Google, Anthropic and OpenAI, route between them on merit, and be judged on outcomes, not demos. The agent is the last tool we reach for, not the first.\nIf you write production Python, can argue with a CFO about a number, and have opinions on eval harnesses you would defend in a code review, this is your seat. Bring the opinions. We bring real data and a problem that has a budget.\n\nYour Responsibilities:\n\nProve it in days, not decks\nOwn the POC end to end: Scope it against an outcome metric agreed upfront, build it on real client data, and demo working software.\nWin the room with code: Run workshops and demos for CxOs and engineers where the thing on screen is the thing being sold.\nBuild agents that survive production\nArchitect the system: Orchestrate with Google ADK, Claude Agent SDK or OpenAI Agents SDK. Connect agents to enterprise data, APIs and business systems through standard tool and context interfaces (MCP). Handle sessions, memory, vector and state storage, and sandboxed tool execution.\nMake it deterministic where it must be: Output validation, tool routing, fallbacks and hybrid model routing.\nShip the evals before the agent: Evaluation suites and tracing are part of the build, tracked as eval pass rate.\nShip it into the client's world\nRun it inside enterprise IT: Turn the reference architecture into a secure, observable production system. Success is tracked as POC-to-production conversion.\nTune for performance and cost: Across Google, Anthropic and OpenAI stacks, tracked as cost per task.\nStay until it is real: Monitor drift, bias and privacy, and report the client's outcome number back to the client.\nCompound every deployment\nBe the engineer the CxO trusts: Say what not to build as readily as what to build.\nLeave patterns behind: Reference architectures, eval sets and agent templates that make the next Searce deployment faster. Track what is emerging across ADK, Claude Agent SDK and OpenAI Agents SDK, and adopt only what survives production.\n\nFunctional Skills\n\nProblem Framing: Turns a vague ambition into a testable hypothesis with a number attached.\nSystems Judgment: Knows when the answer is an agent, a workflow, a script, or don't build it.\nTechnical Storytelling: Explains an agent's behavior and trade-offs to a CFO and to a staff engineer without changing the substance.\nCommercial Sense: Ties architecture choices to cost, revenue and risk.\nOwnership Under Ambiguity: Moves forward in messy client environments with no spec and no hand-holding.\n\nTech Superpowers\n\nAgentic Systems Depth: Hands-on with Google ADK, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK or LangGraph. Fluent in MCP and A2A, session and memory management, and sandboxed execution. Computer-use agents are a plus.\nEvals and Observability: You have built evaluation harnesses and agent tracing for systems in production.\nRetrieval and State: RAG, vector stores, prompt caching, hybrid model routing.\nProduction Engineering: Strong Python, APIs and microservices. Delivery on GCP (Vertex AI), AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker) or Azure (OpenAI/Foundry), with enterprise security and responsible-AI practice (monitoring, bias, privacy).\nAI-Native Build Workflow: Ships daily with Claude Code, Cursor or GitHub Copilot, and knows where not to trust them.\n\nExperience & Relevance\n5+ years in software engineering, including 2+ shipping LLM or agent systems to production.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.\nAt least one production agent, copilot or AI workflow with real users, and the metric it moved.\nDelivery in a complex or regulated enterprise environment.\n\nJoin the real solvers\nready to futurify\nIf you are excited by the possibilities of what an AI-native engineering-led, modern tech consultancy can do to futurify businesses, apply here and experience the Art of the possible. Don't Just Send a Resume. 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