Forward Deployed Engineer

Job overview

The Forward Deployed Engineer role is onsite in Boston, MA. The salary is $150,000–$190,000 per year. RRC is a recruitment firm working with a venture-backed startup developing AI-driven workflow technology for enterprise operations. The engineer partners with enterprise customers to design, build, and deploy custom AI workflow solutions. The role translates business requirements into technical architectures, integrates AI systems with enterprise data, and turns customer implementations into reusable tools and patterns that can inform the product roadmap.

What you'll do

• Design secure, scalable, and compliant customer workflows
• program, configure, and extend platform components
• integrate data pipelines, AI models, human workflows, and third-party APIs
• deploy production solutions with traceable event logging
• develop AI-powered automation with human review where needed
• work with customer teams and internal product, deployment, and sales teams
• package implementations into reusable accelerators and deployment patterns.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

forward deployed engineer

boston ma

rrc

full-time

$150k–$190k/year

ai integration

enterprise workflows

python

javascript

sql

customer-facing engineering

production deployment

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Requires 4+ years of software development, AI systems design, or data/solutions engineering experience. Rust is strongly preferred, or strong JavaScript, Python, SQL, and systems integration skills; direct commercial AI API integration experience is required.

About the employer

RRC is hiring for this role. Industry: Employment Placement Agencies. Sector: 56.