Hiring: Staff Forward Deployed AI Engineer Company: Ledgent Technology Location: San Diego, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-09 18:08:04 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Data Pipeline, HBase, LLM, Make, RAG, Slack About the job Required Skills: •As a Staff AI Engineer, you will serve as the senior technical anchor for our San Diego engineering team. Success in this role is measured not only by the systems you create, but by the impact you have on the engineers around you. You will guide, mentor, and manage team members, establish best practices for designing and delivering AI solutions, and take an active role in developing engineering talent alongside your own technical contributions. •In addition to leading others, you will remain deeply involved in solving the most challenging technical problems across our client portfolio. This includes building sophisticated agent-based architectures, advanced document intelligence workflows, and automation solutions that support mission-critical business operations. When projects involve uncertainty, competing constraints, or a lack of clear answers, you are the person the team turns to for direction. Clients evaluate our work based on measurable business results, not proof-of-concept demonstrations. •This position reports to the Head of Client Engineering and will occasionally involve direct interaction with clients, helping stakeholders understand solution design, technical decisions, and project outcomes. The ideal candidate is equally motivated by helping others grow and by personally delivering exceptional engineering work. •What You'll Do: •You'll help shape the future of how we leverage AI, creating impactful solutions that deliver meaningful value for our clients and differentiate our work in the market. •Team Leadership & Development: •Lead, mentor, and manage two engineers based in San Diego, supporting their technical development, code quality, and delivery performance. •Establish and maintain a high engineering standard through thoughtful code reviews, collaborative programming sessions, and foundational implementation patterns. •Act as the primary escalation resource for complex technical challenges, coaching engineers as you help them work through difficult problems. •Create and reinforce engineering practices, processes, and habits that continuously elevate team performance from quarter to quarter. •Technical Strategy: •Guide architectural direction across client engagements, including agent-driven workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions, document processing systems, and production automation platforms. •Assess emerging AI models, tools, frameworks, and methodologies, determining which technologies should become part of our production ecosystem. •Convert learnings from client engagements into scalable internal assets, including reusable tools, templates, frameworks, and documentation. •Delivering Production-Ready AI Solutions: Compensation: •$175,000 •$200,000 •$175-200 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!