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Associate, Forward Deployed Engineer

KPMGChicago, ILFull-timeAdvisoryPosted Today

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KPMG is hiring an Associate, Forward Deployed Engineer in its Advisory practice to rapidly build and deploy end-to-end generative AI systems for clients.

What you'll do:

  • Build and deploy end-to-end AI systems, from problem framing and MVP to deployed workflow.
  • Contribute to the technical design of AI agents, orchestration patterns and context engineering modules.
  • Develop RAG pipelines and integrations with services such as Azure AI Search and Databricks.
  • Implement testing and evaluation frameworks (golden sets, regression harnesses, red-teaming) for secure, auditable code.
  • Deploy and maintain scalable AI microservices and containerized workloads, using CI/CD, unit tests and code reviews.

What you'll need:

  • 1+ year of software engineering experience shipping production AI, ML or data-intensive applications.
  • Bachelor's degree required (master's in CS, engineering, AI or related field preferred).
  • Strong Python and experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex or Semantic Kernel.
  • Cloud experience (preferably Azure) and Docker/Kubernetes; familiarity with Cursor, Claude Code or Copilot.
  • A portfolio, GitHub repository or system walk-through; domestic travel. No visa sponsorship is available for this role.

Full details and application on the official KPMG careers page.

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