Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
IBMUnited States (multiple cities; can be performed from anywhere in the US)Full-timeIBM Consulting – Data & AnalyticsPosted Today
IBM Consulting is hiring a seasoned Forward Deployed Engineer specializing in AI to design and deliver AI solutions built on foundation models and large language models for clients across industries, taking work from prototyping to production deployment.
What you'll do:
- Architect and deliver AI solutions with a strong focus on foundation models and LLMs.
- Lead production agent deployments: orchestration architecture (multi-agent coordination, tool routing, state, retries, human-in-the-loop), reliability and scale.
- Design MCP servers and tools as the integration backbone for agents, and integrate them into enterprise systems of record.
- Own output-evaluation frameworks: eval strategy, golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, regression/CI evals, guardrails and production monitoring.
- Take agents from prototype to proven production operation.
Expert Python; OpenAI API / Agents SDK (or equivalent); event-driven systems, workflow automation and observability. This job can be performed from anywhere in the US.
Full details and application on the official IBM careers page.