What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forward Deployed Engineer position at Primis?
Forward Deployed Engineer | AI Startup | NYC
Primis is partnered with a well-funded AI startup building an observability and evaluation platform for AI applications in production.
They're Series C, backed by strong institutional investors, with significant funding behind them and a growing customer base of Fortune 500 enterprises.
They're hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to join a growing Solutions Engineering team and act as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise customers.
What you'll work on:
- Partner with enterprise ML and GenAI teams to help them understand and improve how their AI performs in production
- Lead technical discussions with data scientists and engineers, then shift gears to business conversations with directors and executives
- Advise on GenAI and ML best practices, model evaluation, and production deployment
- Demo the product to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Feed customer insights back into the product roadmap by working closely with engineering and product teams
- Identify and drive expansion opportunities within existing accounts
What we're looking for:
- Background as a Data Scientist, ML Engineer, or Engineer working with ML or GenAI applications in produ ction
- Hands-on experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Familiarity with ML frameworks and LLM/agentic tooling
- Solid understanding of the ML lifecycle - feature generation, training, deployment, and real-time scoring
- Proficiency in Python or another programming language
- Strong communicator who can make complex technical concepts accessible to any audience
- Previous customer-facing experience (Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, CSE, Consultant) is a strong plus
- Remote with offices in NYC or SF
Interested? Apply or message me directly for more info.
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