Forward Deployed AI/ML Engineer IV

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, AI/ML, you’ll join our AI and Data Engineering (AIDE) team and embed directly with our utility clients to understand their hardest operational problems, then build and ship the systems that solve them: production code, in the client’s environment, used by their people, and measured against their outcomes. This role focuses on taking AI from a promising demo to a system a utility’s business runs on: grounded, evaluated, monitored, and trusted by the operators who depend on it.

What you'll do:

• Embed with utility clients to design, build, and deploy generative AI (GenAI) and machine learning (ML) systems that solve real operational problems in the client’s environment
• Own the technical architecture of each engagement — retrieval, orchestration, model selection, serving, evaluation, and monitoring — and defend it to client architects and security teams
• Run technical discovery independently, separate the problem as stated from the underlying need, and say so when the requested solution is the wrong one
• Deliver a working, useful system early in each engagement, typically within the first few weeks, then iterate toward production hardening — tactical solutions are legitimate, but undocumented or unowned ones are not
• Design task-specific evaluations before building, define what “correct” means with client subject matter experts, and hold every system to those evaluations before release
• Build retrieval and grounding systems over client data, including structured, unstructured, and graph-backed knowledge sources

Full details and application on the official E Source careers page.