Forward Deployed Engineer; AI

Position: Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Applications)
Description Kforce has a client that is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Applications) in Charlotte, NC. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you embed with a business team, learn how it works, and ship an AI-powered application that the team uses in production.

What you build:
* Full-stack applications on our stack
* Engineer the context that an LLM reasons over to generate insights and reports
* Agentic workflows that improve business processes: agents handle multi-step work such as gathering data, drafting outputs and routing for approval, and people review the decisions that matter

How you build:
* With coding agents:
Claude Code and Codex are your primary build tools
* With guardrails:
You enforce quality through automated tests, test coverage and our existing quality gates
* With the business, every day:
You refine, build and demo with users dailyRequirements
* Master's degree in Computer Science from a top-100 US program, as ranked by
* 6+ years of professional software engineering on production applications
* Production experience in Java/Spring Boot or .NET (C#)
* Production experience in Type Script with Angular or NestJS
* CS Rankings* Designing and building REST APIs, and delivering cloud-native applications (containers, CI/CD, observability)
* Uses Claude Code or Codex or other coding harnesses daily to build production software
* Has led requirements sessions and demos directly with business stakeholders
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
Should be able to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical business leaders, both in person and in writing
* Experience working in an Agile team, especially short build;
Demo;
Feedback cycles with business users

Job Type Contract Compensation
70 - $80