Forward Deployed AI Engineer

About this role

Distyl AI seeks a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to build and operate production AI systems within customer environments across telecom, healthcare, insurance, and other industries. This hands-on role involves designing end-to-end AI workflows, developing robust Python services, and iterating on live systems to deliver measurable business value with accountability for production outcomes.

What you'll do

• Build and operate AI systems in customer environments, owning system reliability and production performance
• Design compound AI workflows combining models, prompts, agents, tools, and retrieval into coherent systems
• Develop maintainable Python services that integrate AI into customer workflows and existing applications
• Measure system behavior, identify failures, debug issues, and iterate to improve quality and user value
• Build evaluation frameworks and observability patterns to understand and improve AI system performance
• Partner with customers and subject matter experts to understand workflows and adapt systems to evolving needs

What they're looking for

• 2+ years software engineering experience
• Python development and production software systems
• Building AI/LLM applications and composing multi-component systems
• System design, debugging, testing, and performance optimization
• AI-native tools and workflows for code, analysis, and automation
• Customer collaboration and requirements clarification
• Evaluation frameworks and observability design
• Ownership mentality with accountability for outcomes