Senior Applied AI Engineer, Forward Deployed

Role overview Own the technical delivery and production performance of AI agents that handle business workflows through conversational interfaces. This customer-facing role combines backend and agent engineering with discovery, implementation, evaluation, and operational support; it also involves turning deployment-specific needs into capabilities that can be reused across customers.

Responsibilities - Work with business users to understand requirements and deliver agent workflows from discovery through production operation. - Design and improve how agents interpret requests, maintain context, access business data, execute actions, and escalate to human operators. - Contribute directly to architecture, implementation, evaluation, and production troubleshooting. - Collaborate with backend, infrastructure, product, and go-to-market colleagues to deliver maintainable shared capabilities. - Improve workflow completion, agent quality, failure rates, latency, and operating cost; establish visibility and recovery practices. - Use approved AI coding assistants and agentic development tools in day-to-day engineering work.

Requirements - Senior-level engineering ownership across AI agent systems, backend development, and customer deployment. - Ability to translate customer requirements into reliable, secure, maintainable production software. - Active use of approved AI-assisted engineering tools as part of the development workflow. - The source also names Python, AI agent frameworks, relational databases, cloud infrastructure, and messaging integrations as part of the technical environment; specific proficiency requirements were not included in the available excerpt.

Nice to have - Experience with model training, fine-tuning, or inference optimization using tools such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Hugging Face. - Previous customer-facing implementation, forward-deployed, or founding-engineer experience. - A track record of turning needs from multiple deployments into shared product capabilities.

Benefits and work setup - Remote, customer-facing work across Africa, with Nigeria preferred. - The listed monthly base salary for Nigeria is ₦500,000–₦800,000, depending on experience and demonstrated production ownership. Compensation outside Nigeria is discussed separately.