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Lead AI Forward Engineer

United States of America, Eagan, Minnesota💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-29

Core

Design and guide the delivery of AI-powered solutions to reduce operational toil and accelerate technology teams across the CIO organization.

Role type

Senior IC solution architect and forward-deployed AI engineer

Builds

Scalable AI solutions, reusable architectural patterns, telemetry pipelines, and observability dashboards

Domain

Enterprise technology / AI & Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

End-to-end solution design, AI/ML and LLM application patterns, Python, Cloud architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP), Distributed systems, DevOps/SRE principles, Technical leadership

Preferred skills

LLM frameworks (LangChain/LlamaIndex), AI observability, AI guardrails and safety controls, Enterprise service management platforms

Technologies

Python, AWS, Azure, GCP, LLM orchestration, Agentic frameworks, RAG, Vector search, CI/CD, Observability tooling

Responsibilities

Identify high-impact opportunities for AI automation, Design end-to-end AI solutions including workflows and APIs, Guide implementations from prototype to production, Define reusable architectural patterns, Build scalable telemetry pipelines, Develop performance and cost dashboards, Establish SLIs/SLOs for AI services, Integrate observability into CI/CD, Develop automated guardrails and policy enforcement, Partner with cross-functional teams on evaluation frameworks, Mentor engineers on AI solution design

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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