{"id":3529396,"url":"https://alion.io/job/sia-forward-deployed-engineer-manager-4","title":"Forward Deployed Engineer Manager","company":{"id":5732,"name":"Sia","domain":"sia.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/sia","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"services","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":81,"open_postings":49,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.959,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":19,"computed_at":"2026-11-01T06:10:25Z"}},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Luxembourg City, Luxembourg"],"countries":["LU"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":92000,"max_usd":214000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":1900},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Anthropic","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Claude","optional":false},{"name":"Databricks","optional":false},{"name":"EU AI Act","optional":false},{"name":"Fine-tuning","optional":false},{"name":"GDPR","optional":false},{"name":"Gemini","optional":false},{"name":"LangChain","optional":false},{"name":"LlamaIndex","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Mistral","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI","optional":false},{"name":"pgvector","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"RAG","optional":false},{"name":"Semantic Search","optional":false},{"name":"Anthropic SDK","optional":true},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"Embeddings","optional":true},{"name":"GCP","optional":true},{"name":"LLMOps","optional":true},{"name":"OpenAI SDK","optional":true},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-30T13:41:54Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-30","last_verified_at":"2026-11-01T21:57:54Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Sia is a next-generation, global management consulting group. Founded in 1999, we were born digital. Today our strategy and management capabilities are augmented by data science, enhanced by creativity and driven by responsibility. We’re optimists for change and we help clients initiate, navigate and benefit from transformation. We believe optimism is a force multiplier, helping clients to mitigate downside and maximize opportunity. With expertise across a broad range of sectors and services, our 3,000 consultants serve clients worldwide from 48 locations in 19 countries. Our expertise delivers results. Our optimism transforms outcomes.\n Most GenAI never leaves the demo. We hire for the people who get it into production, and into daily use. The Forward Deployed Engineer closes that gap: a field engineer who builds GenAI applications (agents, RAG pipelines, copilots) and makes sure they get adopted, embedded in daily workflows, and deliver measurable value. You quickly grasp a client's operational challenges, design a tailored response, deploy it, and bring teams along in the transformation.\nYou will operate at the intersection of Data Science, ML/Platform Engineering, and client delivery, helping customers find the right level of sophistication, semantic search, RAG, agents, or fine-tuning, deliver measurable ROI in the most cost-effective way. Beyond crafting prompts, you will design and build robust, scalable products: benchmarking candidate Foundation Models across the model stack (from GPT-x, Claude, and Gemini to edge models like Mistral), rapidly iterating prototypes, and validating ideas directly with users using frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, and pgvector.\nWe work closely with leading technology partners including Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI, Databricks, and AWS. In practice that means early access to new model releases, direct engineering channels to the labs, funded certifications, and the freedom to pick the right tool, not just the one you're locked into.\nWhat you'll actually do\nSit with a client’s team, work out where AI actually earns its keep (and where it doesn’t), and set the direction for turning that into something that ships.\nLead the design and delivery of LLM-based systems: autonomous agents, RAG pipelines, workflow automation, and conversational interfaces, and make the architecture calls that go with them.\nOwn the integration of these solutions into clients’ environments (APIs, databases, business tools), making sure they comply with applicable regulations (GDPR, EU AI Act, model licenses, etc.) and that risks are managed.\nDrive adoption across client organizations: shape the training approach, win over sceptics at every level, and iterate until solutions are embedded in daily work.\nPartner with executive stakeholders to refine solutions in production, track their business impact, and decide where to invest next.\nBe the person in the room who can talk to the engineers and to the board, and be believed by both.\nCoach and develop the team around you, and set the quality bar for how the practice builds and delivers AI.\n You’ll thrive here if:\nYou have a strong grounding in computer science, AI, or a related technical field, and you have a track record of building systems that reached production.\nYou have 5+ years of professional experience, including experience leading teams or engagements. We hire for leadership and judgment as much as technical depth.\nYou have deep hands-on experience with LLMs, in production, in research, or in substantial projects: advanced prompting, RAG, fine-tuning, agent orchestration, and systematic evaluation of model outputs (evaluation sets, regression testing, and quality frameworks).\nYou write Python you’d be proud to put in front of any engineering team, and you can quickly pick up whatever language a client’s stack demands.\nYou’re experienced at integrating APIs and connecting heterogeneous systems, and you can make sound architecture decisions for them.\nYou have a strong sense of client context. You know how to decide what’s worth building, set priorities, and deliver measurable value at pace.\nYou can lead non-technical teams through transformation, with the teaching ability, active listening, and communication skills to bridge very different areas of expertise.\nYou want to take ownership of high-value engagements and help shape the direction of a dynamic, fast-growing AI practice, including developing the people in it.\nYou’re fluent in English and French. German is a strong advantage, and we support you in learning it if you are not there yet.\nBonus points for:\nExperience leading teams building with applied AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI SDK, Anthropic SDK, etc.).\nExperience overseeing the deployment and operation of solutions in a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP).\nExperience setting standards for MLOps/LLMOps practices (CI/CD for models, prompt versioning, evaluation pipelines, observability).\nDeep understanding of vector databases and related concepts (e.g., embeddings, neural networks, latent space).\n Why join Sia\nYou ship at scale. You’ll own engagements measured in weeks to quarters, with your solutions going live in front of real users and across the client’s organization, and you’ll set how your teams make that happen.\nRange with depth. You’ll work across several industries and architectures a year, building the judgement to know what works and to pass it on to others.\nA practice you help shape. The AI practice is growing fast, and you’ll have a real say in how it delivers, how it hires, and how it builds its methods.\nDirect access to decision-makers. You’ll sit with business leaders and boards from the start, and you’ll be the one who represents the practice in those rooms.\nWhat we offer\nA competitive salary and strong benefits, including hospital insurance and performance-related bonus.\nA dedicated learning budget, funded partner certifications (Anthropic, AWS, Databricks), and paid conference time, plus the chance to shape learning for your team.\nHybrid working from our Luxembourg office with real flexibility over where the deep work happens.\nA clear path into practice leadership, with the chance to lead teams, mentor others, and grow into senior client-facing roles.\nWe are unable to provide a work permit for this position.\nSia is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6533,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"phd","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"French","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false},{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Luxembourg","iso":"LU","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Management Consulting","AI Consulting & Integration","Analytics & BI Consulting"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-30T15:29:44Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":70,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.695,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":19,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","wave","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-01T06:10:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sia-forward-deployed-engineer-manager-4","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sia-forward-deployed-engineer-manager-4.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-01T22:43:03Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":34505,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-02T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":5732},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=5732"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsia-forward-deployed-engineer-manager-4"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsia-forward-deployed-engineer-manager-4"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsia-forward-deployed-engineer-manager-4"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/sia-forward-deployed-engineer-manager-4\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsia-forward-deployed-engineer-manager-4"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3529396}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"sia.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3529396},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}