What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forward Deployed Engineer position at Marlabs LLC?
Forward Deployed Engineer
Work locations: Alpharetta, GA
Duration: 18 Months
Required Qualifications
Strong Forward Deployed AI Engineer experience.
Demonstrated strength in API design, abstraction, contract-driven development, and defining clean boundaries between system components.
Strong data-modeling and validation skills; experience representing business problems in clear, enforceable schemas.
Practical understanding of how LLM-powered agents operate, including model interaction, tool selection and execution, the tool loop, context, state, and memory.
Ability to reason about nondeterministic behavior and design solutions that can be evaluated, observed, and improved rather than merely confirming that an agent produces a response.
Experience building or integrating backend services and distributed systems using patterns such as REST, RPC, WebSockets, or gRPC.
Understanding of production concerns such as retries, timeouts, error handling, back pressure, and service reliability.
Comfort working independently through ambiguity, asking the right questions, and making sound technical decisions without line-by-line direction.
Ability to work in a fast-moving environment with continuous, sprint-level deliverables.
Strong communication skills and sufficient professional polish to explain or demonstrate a solution to internal stakeholders and, when needed, clients.