[Hiring] Forward Deployment Engineer - AI & Agentic Solutions @Visionary Integration Professionals

Role Description

Visionary Integration Professionals is seeking a Forward Deployment Engineer - AI & Agentic Solutions to help customers adopt practical, secure, and measurable AI-enabled solutions. This role will support both VIP’s State & Local Government and Commercial business units by working directly with customers to:

• Identify high-value use cases.
• Design solution approaches.
• Build prototypes.
• Support pilots.
• Help transition successful concepts into production-ready implementations.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical consultant who can operate comfortably with business stakeholders, technical teams, and customer leadership. This person should be able to:

• Understand business processes.
• Translate them into AI-enabled solution designs.
• Build or guide working prototypes.
• Help customers adopt solutions that are useful, secure, supportable, and aligned to measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role such as solution architect, forward deployed engineer, technical consultant, implementation consultant, software engineer, automation architect, AI engineer, or systems integration consultant.
• Strong practical knowledge of various AI/LLM platforms including OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft Copilot/Azure AI, Google Gemini, AWS AI services.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, or implementing AI-enabled solutions, automation solutions, enterprise integrations, workflow-based systems.
• Experience with agentic AI solution patterns, including tool use, multi-step agents, AI workflow orchestration, MCP, retrieval-augmented generation, and evaluation frameworks.
• Strong technical foundation in several of the following areas: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, REST APIs, prompt engineering, data integration, workflow automation, test automation, DevOps, enterprise application integration.
• Ability to work directly with customers and software vendors to gather requirements, assess feasibility, design solutions, explain tradeoffs, and support implementation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical topics to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience creating technical documentation, solution designs, architecture summaries, implementation plans, or customer enablement materials.
• Ability to work independently in ambiguous customer environments while still following structured delivery practices.
• Ability to travel periodically for customer workshops, project meetings, and onsite delivery activities.
• Experience in ERP/CRM implementations, enterprise workflow automation, case management, software quality, test automation, DevOps, application modernization, digital transformation.
• Understanding of concepts and importance of AI governance, responsible AI, model evaluation, data privacy, compliance, and security review.

Requirements

• Strong practical knowledge of various AI/LLM platforms.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing AI-enabled solutions.
• Experience with agentic AI solution patterns.
• Strong technical foundation in relevant programming languages and technologies.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly.
• Experience creating technical documentation.
• Ability to work independently and travel as needed.

Benefits

• Compensation: $130,000 to $165,000 per year + commission depending on experience and qualifications.
• Medical, Dental, Vision coverage.
• 401(k) Plan and Company Match.
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability coverage.
• Basic Life Insurance.
• 7 Paid Holidays.
• Flexible Paid Time Off.