Role: Forward-Deployed AI Engineer - In Training
Location: New York City
Experience Level: 5+ years as a full-stack developer
Compensation: $170,000-$210,000 base salary + equity
Work Model: In-office, typically three to five days per week, depending on client requirements
As a Forward-Deployed Engineer, You Will Find the Problem Worth Solving - Work directly with customers to navigate ambiguity, uncover high-value opportunities, and use curiosity and business acumen to understand their workflows and jointly define the business outcomes an AI solution should drive.
Build Beyond the Frontier - Architect and build production AI systems-from multi-agent workflows, orchestration, tool use, context engineering, memory and state, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to the APIs, data pipelines, integrations, and distributed systems that make them reliable at scale.
- Complete your first placement in Turing Akademia, building and demonstrating these capabilities through intensive, hands-on work.
Own the Outcome - You won't simply be given a list of responsibilities-you'll have the authority to own the outcome for your client and make a real-world impact through your work.
- Present your work to stakeholders, manage expectations, explain technical decisions, and respond constructively to pushback.
- Lead solutions from discovery through deployment and measurable impact while staying hands-on and owning evaluation, observability, security, reliability, latency, scalability, and cost.
The Anti-Sell - High ownership and intensity: This role requires exceptional ownership and accountability. Your first placement in Turing Akademia will be demanding, fast-paced, and feedback-heavy, preparing you for clients with uncompromising expectations for quality.
- Client-first and in-person: Our work is client-first, which means in-office collaboration may be required either at the client site or at our planned Manhattan office near Madison Square Park. Depending on your assignment and client needs, you should expect to work in person three to five days per week and be based in the New York City area or within a reasonable commuting distance.
- You'll help write the playbook: Enterprise AI operates like a startup. You may not always have an established process or playbook because you'll be expected to apply your expertise, judgment, and technical depth to create one.
Our Forward-Deployed Engineers Typically Have - Strong production engineering experience: Typically 5+ years as a software engineer or full-stack developer building production or near-production systems.
- Strong technical foundation: Experience with programming, APIs, databases, backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and software development practices.
- Client-ready communication: The ability to explain technical concepts clearly, navigate ambiguity, work with stakeholders, and remain calm under pressure.
- Ownership and learning agility: A history of taking initiative, solving unstructured problems, responding well to feedback, and learning new technologies quickly.
Prior experience with AI, LLMs, RAG, or agentic systems is helpful but not required. Your first placement in Turing Akademia is designed to build those skills.
