Forward Deployed Engineer
Newell Brands (Rubbermaid, Sharpie, Graco, Coleman, Yankee Candle and more) is building AI-enabled capabilities for its marketing, eCommerce and content teams. The Forward Deployed Engineer designs and builds these solutions, working directly with the teams who own content, product data, creative and syndication workflows, and reports to the Head of Digital Product & Innovation, eCommerce. This is a hands-on, building-focused role.
What you'll do:
- Map how marketing and eCommerce work gets done and turn business needs into scoped technical solutions with success metrics.
- Build and deploy AI agents, workflow automations, integrations, data pipelines and lightweight apps from prototype to production.
- Train, tune and deploy ML/LLM models that extract and classify product attributes against taxonomy and retailer requirements.
- Build data pipelines and integrations across Azure, PIM, syndication and digital asset platforms (Stibo, Salsify, Adobe).
- Evaluate AI output (precision/recall/F1), monitor deployed solutions and report business impact.
- Use Claude Code and similar AI-assisted development tools daily.
Requirements: 5+ years in software, data or solutions engineering (or forward-deployed/consulting delivery); strong Python and SQL; Azure and DevOps (CI/CD, IaC); hands-on ML for information extraction and classification; experience building with LLMs and agent frameworks.