# Applied AI Engineer (FDE)

TheTop builds TheEngine, an AI product for companies that want clear, cost-efficient and well-governed use of AI. Our core team builds a high-quality, flexible product. Now we're launching a Forward Deployed Engineering team, with one engineer already on board. Customers increasingly want an expert who sets the product up inside their company instead of figuring it out alone. That's where the market is going, and we're building for it. What you'll do Own the product for your customers end to end as an Applied AI Engineer: about 90% backend, 10% or less frontend (simple and easy to customise) Deploy and adapt TheEngine to each customer's setup and needs Talk to customers, understand their business, and turn it into working solutions Work with the core team on how to make the product better, more flexible and easier to deliver and customise Code as much as before, or more, with AI agents doing a lot of the typing You won't be alone: every FDE works with a product partner from our team. What matters to us 3+ years of commercial engineering experience (Python) Fluent technical English and conversational English good enough for customer calls Availability until 3–4 PM US Eas

- **Id**: 4039697
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/thetop-applied-ai-engineer-fde>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: Ukraine
- **Countries**: UA
- **Hiring countries**: UA
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T21:41:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T21:41:00Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1740
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence

## Company

- **Id**: 4485858
- **Name**: TheTop
- **Domain**: thetop.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/thetop-2>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Remote working hours

- **Label**: ET
- **Utc offset min**: \-5
- **Utc offset max**: \-5

## Salary

- **Min**: 3500
- **Max**: 5000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: month
- **Gross**: no
- **Usd annual**: 60000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Ukraine** — Iso: UA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T21:41:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 22
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T23:12:39Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 60000
- **Is top pay**: no

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