Hiring: Forward Deployed Specialist Company: Elios AI Location: San Jose, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 08:36:29 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Azure, GCP, LLM, Python About the job Experience: •5+ years building and shipping production software, with strong Python and solid API and systems fundamentals Required Skills: •If you've been the engineer who gets pulled into the room because a demo impressed someone and now it has to be real, this is that job with the title to match. •Embed with enterprise customers to map their workflows, data, and constraints, then design the thing that actually fits •Build and ship LLM-powered applications and agentic workflows across retrieval, tool integration, orchestration, and evaluation •Wire into customer systems that were never built for this, including legacy APIs, on-prem data stores, SSO, and enterprise auth •Run the technical side of pilots and expansions, from the first workshop through production cutover •Write evals that tell you the truth about whether a system is good enough to hand over •Translate between the customer's business language and the engineering team's, and be trusted by both •Feed real deployment friction back to product so the platform stops requiring heroics Qualifications: •Hands-on experience taking LLM applications past prototype: retrieval, agents, tool use, context management, evals •Comfort deploying and operating on AWS, GCP, or Azure, including containers, observability, and debugging code you did not write •Integration experience across enterprise systems, data platforms, and identity and auth •Track record in a customer-facing technical role: solutions engineering, consulting, professional services, or forward deployed work at a product company •Able to run a room with mixed technical and business stakeholders, executives included, and leave with a decision •Judgment about scope, meaning you know what to build, what to defer, and when the honest answer is that AI is the wrong tool •Background with MCP, agent frameworks, or internal tooling that other engineers actually adopted •Time at a startup where the delivery playbook did not exist yet and you wrote it 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!