Hiring: Sr Forward Deployment Engineer Company: Avanta Group Location: Chicago, IL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 02:39:35 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : ABAC, ArgoCD, Azure, C#, CI/CD, Data Pipeline, Docker, Elasticsearch, Encryption, Event-Driven, FastAPI, Foundry, Grafana, Hugging Face, IAM, Java, JavaScript, Kubernetes, LangChain, LlamaIndex, MLflow, Milvus, Neo4j, Node.js, OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry, Phoenix, Pinecone, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Python, Qdrant, RAG, RBAC, React, Redis, SQL, SageMaker, Serverless, Terraform, TypeScript, Vertex AI, Weaviate, pgvector About the job Experience: •7 years of relevant engineering experience Required Skills: •Lead the design and implementation of production-grade generative AI applications and customer workstreams. •Build RAG systems across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, including authorization-aware retrieval and citations. •Design agentic workflows coordinating multiple tools, services, business rules, and human approval boundaries. •Evaluate proprietary, open-weight, multimodal, embedding, reranking, and specialized models for specific business needs. •Benchmark quality, accuracy, latency, throughput, cost, safety, and operational complexity before recommending a model or architecture. •Create golden datasets, scoring rubrics, regression tests, and repeatable evaluation pipelines. •Diagnose failures across ingestion, parsing, chunking, embeddings, retrieval, reranking, prompts, tool execution, orchestration, and output generation. •Implement human review, approval, escalation, and rollback mechanisms for higher-impact actions. Qualifications: •4–7 years of relevant engineering experience •, including meaningful ownership of production software, enterprise AI, ML, search, data, or automation systems. •Strong production software-engineering ability in Python •, plus competence in at least one additional enterprise language or framework. •Hands-on experience taking a GenAI or ML solution beyond prototype into production •Practical expertise in RAG, model evaluation, agent tools, security controls, cost management, and production troubleshooting •Demonstrated capacity to lead technical discovery and explain trade-offs to business leaders, customer engineers, and security stakeholders. •Evidence of independent ownership, sound judgment, mentorship, and disciplined delivery in ambiguous environments. •Advanced Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, C#, Go, SQL, FastAPI, Node.js, React. •Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, Azure OpenAI, AI Foundry, Google Vertex AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, open-weight models. 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!