Forward Deployed Engineer – Applied AI

Job overview

The Forward Deployed Engineer – Applied AI role uses a hybrid approach, combining collaboration in Scottsdale, AZ, with focused engineering time; compensation is not specified. HomeSmart is a real estate business seeking practical AI solutions for internal teams and affiliated businesses. The individual contributor identifies business problems and builds production-ready applications, integrations, data pipelines, and AI-enabled workflows. The role carries solutions from discovery and prototyping through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing improvement, partnering with engineering, data science, infrastructure, and business teams.

What you'll do

• Work with business teams to understand workflows, identify opportunities, and define success measures. Build and deploy applications, APIs, integrations, AI-enabled workflows, and automation
• develop data pipelines and shared data models
• collaborate on machine-learning architecture, training, inference, testing, and evaluation
• select approaches based on accuracy, latency, cost, and control
• build security and human review into solutions
• and monitor and improve adoption, quality, time savings, and operating costs.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

forward deployed engineer

applied ai

hybrid

scottsdale az

homesmart services

python

machine learning

ai applications

data pipelines

apis

production deployment

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Prior Forward Deployed Engineer experience is not required. The posting does not require a specific degree or number of years of experience and welcomes demonstrated ability from professional work, independent projects, open source, or self-built products.

About the employer

HomeSmart Services is hiring for this role. Industry: Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers. Sector: 53.