Associate Forward Deployed Engineer
Coforge - Princeton, NJ
Hiring: Associate Forward Deployed Engineer Company: Coforge Location: Princeton, NJ Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 13:08:29 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Azure, CI/CD, Docker, Fine-tuning, GCP, Git, GitHub, Hugging Face, Jupyter, LLM, Python, RAG, TypeScript About the job Required Skills: •LLMs, Agentic AI, Production AI, RAG, Python, Cloud & APIs •Embed with an enterprise client team — typically Fortune 500 — to deliver production AI systems in two-to-four-week sprints. •Co-own a scoped workstream with a senior FDE: agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, eval frameworks, fine-tunes, or AI-native rebuilds of legacy processes. •Ship production code from day one. Not slideware, not "POCs that never leave Jupyter" — real systems with real users. •Present your work weekly to client stakeholders, ranging from engineering leads to the C-suite. You'll write the readout. You'll demo the system. You'll defend the design choices. •Translate ambiguous client problems into shipped solutions — most FDE work begins with a vague pain point, not a written spec. •Move between clients and verticals as you grow — typical glide path is solo workstream ownership by month nine, leading a deployment by month eighteen. •Mentor the next cohort of associates as they arrive. Qualifications: •BS or MS in Computer Science, EE, Math, Statistics, Physics, or a comparably rigorous STEM field. •Candidates graduated from Computer Science program from US Tier-1/Ivy League universities are preferred. •Recent graduates from the US Universities are encouraged •Applied hands-on capability in agentic frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Mastra, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP). •Fine-tuning experience (LoRA, full fine-tune, RLHF basics). •Eval and observability tooling (LangSmith, Braintrust, Arize, Weights & Biases) •Cloud certification or strong hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP. •TypeScript or Go alongside Python. •Public technical footprint: blog, popular GitHub repos, Hugging Face contributions, or active technical writing. •Prior client-facing experience in any context — consulting, sales engineering, founder, tutoring, debate, teaching. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!