Distinguished Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Distinguished Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Description

You will embed with Verizon’s core Business Units to solve critical, ambiguous operational challenges by architecting, building, and deploying production-grade agentic systems and enterprise RAG engines. You will own end-to-end technical delivery, including orchestration, context management strategies, evaluation harnesses, reliable runtime deployment, and scaling solutions into reusable assets.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-stack architecture blueprinting for embedded AI and agentic initiatives, including multi-agent orchestration, state machines, latency/cost budgets, security boundaries, and enterprise integrations.

• Engineer stateful agent workflows with governance, using tools such as LangGraph, Temporal, or event-driven state machines; enforce tool-calling protocols, sandboxing, and deterministic fallback logic.

• Design production RAG infrastructure with hybrid search, re-ranking, metadata filtering, and semantic caching.

• Deploy agent services and scheduled workflows to runtimes such as Domino Data Lab, Apache Airflow, Kubernetes microservices, and serverless compute across major clouds.

• Architect offline and online evaluation frameworks (e.g., LLM-as-a-judge, synthetic tests, human-in-the-loop review queues, live A/B rollouts) to track drift, hallucinations, and task completion.

• Generalize one-off deployments into reusable internal SDKs, API primitives, modular UI components; mentor engineers and draft technical documentation for IP.

• Scope high-leverage intervention points with BU leadership and translate operational processes into measurable AI impact.

• Serve as a technical authority to executive stakeholders by explaining behavior, failure modes, and performance trade-offs.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance options, identity theft protection, pet insurance.

• Matched 401(k) plan and up to 8 company-paid holidays and up to 6 personal days.

• Paid parental leave, adoption assistance, and tuition assistance.

• Potential premium pay depending on role.

• Up to 15 days of vacation for newly hired employees (grows with service).

• Salary range listed: $137,000.00 - $263,000.00 (varies by location and skills/experience).