Forward Deployed AI Engineer (USA Based)

North America / United States / NY / New York City /

Product

#: 744000144775644 / REF61812C

Not Applicable

Full-Time

Job Description

About the role

The Forward Deployed AI Engineer is the builder on the team. You operate like an early-stage startup CTO inside a Fortune 500 client: deep, fast, and comfortable with ambiguity. You write production-grade code, ship a working v0 in weeks — not quarters — and measure your own success by movement in the client’s numbers, not code shipped.

What you’ll do

Build data pipelines joining NIQ’s consumer and retail data with the client’s own sales, inventory, and margin data
Design and ship AI decision applications: recommendation workflows, LLM-agent-driven analysis, approval flows with guardrails, full auditability
Navigate broken, incomplete enterprise data environments — and ship anyway
Work in a 2–3 person deployment team with a data scientist and an AI Deployment Architect, dedicated to one client
Surface reusable patterns from each deployment back into NIQ’s product platform

Qualifications

What we’re looking for

• Strong software engineering fundamentals: production Python and SQL, data pipelines, APIs

• Hands-on with modern AI tooling — LLM APIs, agent frameworks, retrieval systems

• Full-stack enough to ship a usable application end-to-end on your own

• Bias to speed and client impact over perfect architecture

• Comfortable client-facing: you demo your own work and defend your own trade-offs

Nice to have

• Forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or startup experience

• Experience with retail, CPG, or commercial data at scale

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