What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forward Deployed Engineer — Data Engineering & GenAI position at CogniSoft Technologies?
Must Have
- Strong hands-on software engineering experience.
- Strong data engineering fundamentals, including ETL/ELT, data modeling, schema mapping, and data pipelines.
- Experience designing and integrating REST APIs and backend services.
- Strong Python development skills.
- Hands-on experience building applications using LLMs / Generative AI.
- Experience building at least some of: AI agents, RAG systems, tool-calling workflows, LLM-powered applications, or AI workflow automation.
- Ability to take an ambiguous customer requirement and independently turn it into a working technical solution.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across applications, APIs, infrastructure, and data.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work directly with customers and senior stakeholders.
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-moving environments with incomplete requirements.
- U.S. Citizenship.
- Based in or willing to work from the Washington, DC metro area.
- Ability to work in a hybrid environment with office/customer-site presence at least 2–3 days per week.