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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Realign · Minneapolis, MN, US

Spotted 2h agoFull-time

Job details

Work mode
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Senior
Experience
8+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Posted
Oct 19, 2026
Last confirmed open
Oct 19, 2026
Job description

About this role

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401 Posted October 19th, 2026

Job Type: Full Time

Job Category

IT

Job Description

Job Title: Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Location: Dallas, TX / Minneapolis. MN (On-site)

Full TimeForward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Mission: Provides hands-on coaching and demonstrates value in real projects through creation of Prompt Library, Use Case Catalog, Office Hours, Team Coaching Sessions, and AI Champion Enablement.Job Description

  • Work hands-on with Product, Architecture, Engineering, QA, and UX teams to operationalize AI-DLC practices.
  • Enable Mob Construction, AI-assisted development, prompt engineering, and context-driven delivery.
  • Establish reference architectures, AI coding standards, reusable prompts, and semantic knowledge assets.
  • Coach teams on validation frameworks, AI quality practices, and human-in-the-loop controls.
  • Support brownfield semantic modeling and legacy system knowledge extraction.
  • Introduce AI engineering toolchains, evaluation pipelines, and MLOps/LLMOps practices.
  • Capture delivery learnings and convert them into reusable best practices.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • 8+ years of software engineering, architecture, QA, DevOps, or platform engineering experience
  • Hands-on experience delivering cloud-native and enterprise applications
  • Experience with AI-assisted development tools and modern software engineering practices
  • Strong coding and solution architecture background
  • Preferred: Experience with LLMs, Agentic AI, RAG, semantic search, or AI platform
  • Preferred: AWS/Azure/GCP certifications
  • Preferred: Experience in AI platform engineering and MLOps/LLMOps
  • Preferred: Financial Services domain experience

Technical & Soft Skills

  • Prompt engineering and context engineering
  • Python, Java, JavaScript, or modern cloud development stack
  • DevOps, CI/CD, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Replit, etc.
  • GenAI platforms and LLM integration, MLOps / LLMOps
  • Semantic modeling and knowledge graph concepts
  • Coaching and mentoring experience
  • Collaboration across cross-functional teams
  • Strong verbal and written communication

Required Skills

DevOps Engineer

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