Forward Deployed AI Engineer; Senior

Our mission is to accelerate positive impact in critical industries through AI transformation .

We’re a public benefit corporation , founded in 2024. We bootstrapped profitably for our first year and are now backed by leading investors focused on AI, climate and energy.

We’re growing quickly and already work with category-leaders in real estate (CBRE), energy (Franklin Energy), logistics (Flexe) and power utilities such as Puget Sound Energy and others.

We're built on three simple ideas:

• We're at the intersection of two massive transformations:
  AI and climate change
  .
• AI technology is far outpacing critical industry's ability to harness it.
• The most impactful opportunities are often in messy business processes.

To tackle this, we've put together a different kind of company.

We're not a SaaS company, nor a typical consultancy.

Instead we're focused on client problems and impact. We create solutions that combine consulting, custom engineering and reusable approaches (data, code, models...).

AZX is led by experienced founders from AI and climate focused companies.

We hope AZXis the best career step you ever take. We're aiming to build the kind of company we dreamed of:positive impact, fun, interesting problems, enjoyable colleagues (high EQ, low drama), flexible work-life and built to last.

While we're an early-stage startup, we do offer:

• Competitive compensation for our stage of company, including base and bonus
• Healthcare with meaningful coverage for dependents and HSA
• Flexible time off
• Stock equity
• 401k
• Fully remote culture with a cluster of colleagues in Seattle
• Twice-yearly immersive in-person summits as well as training opportunities

As we grow, we'll continue to add new benefits (though if you're driven by perks, you might be happier at big tech).

It's just the beginning for AZX.

United States

Full time

Remote

We offer competitive early-stage startup compensation based on your capabilities, experience, and location

About AZX

Our mission is to accelerate positive impact in critical industries through AI transformation.

We’re growing quickly and already work with category-leaders in real estate (CBRE), energy (Level Ten Energy), logistics (Flexe) and utilities.

We’re a public benefit corporation, founded in 2024 and have been profitable from inception.

We work on challenges in clean energy, decarbonization, climate risk, energy systems and global economics. We’re building our company for long term success and aim to build the ultimate place to work if you’re passionate about AI and positive impact.

About the Role

We are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join a team that scopes, builds, deploys, and measures AI systems inside client environments — utilities, commercial real estate, and logistics. Your software runs in the client's cloud, under their identity provider and toolchain, inside their compliance framework, integrated with their systems of record — you bring the right mix of models and tools for the job rather than working around it.

The work is agentic AI with a correctness envelope: think document intelligence with deterministic, auditable validation where money or compliance is on the line, voice-of-customer AI, cognitive digital twins of a client's customers, and human-in-the-loop agentic workflows, all measured against real before/after baselines rather than left as shelf-ware. You won't be handed a finished spec — you'll sit with the client's operators and executives to find the real problem, design the solution with their architects, build it with your pod, and prove it worked with numbers both companies stand behind.

You bring a strong area of expertise and expect to use it, and work closely with our team across Dev Ops,…