Cayuse Holdings

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Cayuse Holdings

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Location Type: Remote

Location: IdahoUnited States

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Salary

💰 $75 - $90 per hour

Job Level

About the role

  • Embed with strategic enterprise customers to rapidly diagnose critical business challenges, map data landscapes, and co-design AI solutions on-site.
  • Lead end-to-end solution design and delivery of agentic AI workflows, RAG pipelines, knowledge graphs, and real-time decision-making applications.
  • Drive rapid prototyping and POCs that demonstrate tangible business value within days to weeks.
  • Serve as the primary technical owner across the full project lifecycle: scoping, architecture, build, deployment, and post-launch optimization.
  • Architect production-grade Enterprise AI applications on Partner Foundry Solutions or Datacentres Private Cloud and GPU infrastructure, integrating with enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, data warehouses, data lakes).
  • Build scalable data pipelines across structured and unstructured data using ETL/ELT, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, AstraDB), and knowledge base frameworks.
  • Develop and fine-tune LLM/SLM solutions; implement RAG architectures (LlamaIndex, Haystack) and orchestrate multi-agent workflows (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI).
  • Ship with full-stack and DevOps depth: Python, Node.js/Go, React/Vue, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and GPU cluster management.
  • Champion observability, monitoring, and telemetry to ensure trustworthy, auditable, and versioned AI agents in production.
  • Identify expansion opportunities by working with sales and customer success to uncover high-value use cases across new business domains.
  • Feed structured field insights back to Platform Engineering and Product on feature gaps, emerging needs, and usability improvements.
  • Build reusable IP through reference architectures, accelerators, frameworks, and technical best practices that scale future engagements.
  • Mentor engineers and customer teams, driving knowledge transfer and building internal AI competencies.

Requirements

  • Required Qualification: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related field.
  • 10+ years in software engineering, data engineering, or AI/ML delivery; at least 4+ years in customer-facing or field roles.
  • Proven track record in building and deploying AI/ML applications in production at enterprise scale.
  • Deep full-stack proficiency: Python (required), Node.js/Go, React/Vue, SQL/NoSQL databases.
  • Hands-on with LLMs, prompt engineering, vector databases, data pipelines, application dashboards, RAG pipelines, and agent orchestration frameworks.
  • Strong DevOps skills: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GPU infrastructure, cloud-native deployment patterns.
  • Experience integrating across heterogeneous enterprise systems - ERP, data warehouses, data lakes, streaming architectures.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous customer needs into actionable engineering plans under tight timelines.
  • Excellent communication skills - comfortable with C-suite presentations, technical workshops, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Willingness to travel up to 25% for on-site customer engagements.
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonNode.jsGoReactVueSQLNoSQLLLMRAG pipelinesETL
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipcollaborationmentoringproblem-solvingcustomer engagementknowledge transferpresentation skillsorganizational skillsadaptability
Certifications
BS in Computer ScienceMS in Data SciencePhD in EngineeringPhD in MathematicsPhD in Physics