Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

Location: Itasca, Illinois, United States

Salary: $130,000–$160,000 annually plus bonus

Company

hirify.global develops AI-driven enterprise software solutions for organizations worldwide and operates as a large international company with 7,000+ employees.

What you will do

• Deliver AI projects from discovery, design, and prototyping through deployment, verification, training, support, and measurement of results.
• Work with business and technical stakeholders to understand workflows, systems, desired outcomes, and suitable AI use cases.
• Design and implement tested solutions, including integrations between AI platforms, APIs, enterprise applications, and data sources.
• Build user-scoped AI features and agentic systems that use enterprise tools within defined guardrails.
• Operate production solutions, including jobs, backups, monitoring, access management, and incident write-ups.
• Recommend models and platforms, communicate trade-offs and outcomes, and contribute project lessons to team best practices.

Requirements

• In-depth expertise in AI/software engineering, with understanding of data, cloud, security, and business context.
• Experience shipping at least one system to production and measuring its operational or business impact.
• Experience building an LLM application used by real users, including tool use, retrieval, and prompt or context design.
• Experience integrating AI platforms with enterprise systems such as Salesforce, HubSpot, NetSuite, or Databricks, including related data governance.
• Experience with Python backend development using FastAPI or similar, React/TypeScript, SQL, one cloud platform, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD; Azure is preferred.
• Ability to work independently on non-routine problems, recommend practical solutions, and escalate decisions outside agreed guidelines.
• Clear written and spoken communication with technical and business stakeholders.
• Habit of verifying results and checking numbers before reporting them.

Nice to have

• Experience in a forward-deployed or embedded engineering role.
• Familiarity with RevOps, FP&A, or sales operations.
• Production agent experience, ideally with Model Context Protocol.
• Azure experience with Container Apps, Entra, Key Vault, Terraform, or Azure DevOps.
• Working French or Dutch.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role in a flexible, diverse, international environment with hybrid work opportunities.
• Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance; life insurance; and disability benefits.
• 401(k) with company contribution and flexible spending accounts.
• Tuition assistance and community involvement or volunteering events.