Forward Deployed Engineer | IFS Copperleaf

This customer-facing engineering role helps strategic accounts apply IFS Copperleaf’s AI-powered decision analytics to their own data. You will take solutions from discovery and prototyping through production adoption, while bringing validated customer needs back to Product and R&D.
* Full-time
* Fully Remote### Skills and expertiseLLM application developmentRAGPrompt and context engineering

Agent orchestration

Python

AngularSQLREST APIs### Key responsibilities
* Own discovery, scoping, implementation, evaluation, and production adoption for strategic customer solutions.
* Build and evaluate prototypes using customer data, then measure workflow impact and value.
* Turn validated customer needs into reusable accelerators and product roadmap input.## How this job compares

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AI in this role:
High. AI is the core of the work: building, training or deploying AI systems. The role requires hands-on LLM application development, RAG, prompt and context engineering, and agent orchestration. It also names Claude Code as a daily engineering tool.## Full description

Job Description About IFS Copperleaf IFS Copperleaf helps the world’s largest asset-intensive organizations — utilities, energy, water, transportation, and more — decide where to invest billions in capital to deliver the most value, using AI-powered decision analytics. Our customers defend and optimize the infrastructure that societies depend on.

The Role As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you sit cross-functionally across the Sales, Product, R&D, and Implementation teams. For our most critical pursuits, you stand up our current product on the customer’s own data, fast, to prove value inside the deal. And when a customer needs something our product does not yet do, you use modern AI tools to rapidly prototype a near-production ready solution and put it in front of them.

You turn “we can’t do that” into “here’s how,” and the strongest prototypes go on to shape our roadmap.

You own the technical outcome from discovery through production adoption. Your job is to win deals by delivering fast and with value in the current production environment, prototyping and articulating value from customer requirements, measuring and proving value across customer workflows, and continuously coordinating field-observed customer needs, ideas, roadmaps, and visions with the product and sales organizations. You are the shaper that understands customers’ needs, hypothesizes on value, co-creates the solution, and can test, measure, and validate the outcomes.

What You Will Do
• Work alongside Solutions Consultants and Account Executives with our most innovative and strategic accounts as well as our most important net new opportunities.
• Own discovery, technical scoping, architecture, implementation, evaluation, productionization, adoption, and handoff for strategic customer solutions. Deploy and prove value.
• Prototype aggressively; product ionize deliberately.
• For sales and product management validation, build the smallest safe prototype that tests the hypothesis inside the deal’s timeline. For production use, engineer for security, reliability, observability, maintainability, and integration with the customer’s architecture.
• Build, deploy, and evaluate with customer data; measure adoption, workflow impact, reliability, and time-to-value; iterate with technical and business stakeholders.
• Partner closely with Product and R&D to turn validated customer patterns and production evidence into supported roadmap…