Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Locus Robotics is a warehouse-automation company providing autonomous mobile robots and the LocusONE orchestration platform for fulfillment and logistics operations.

Wilmington, United States
About Locus Robotics

Locus Robotics delivers Robots-as-a-Service warehouse automation. Its LocusONE platform coordinates people, autonomous robots, and workflows for picking, putaway, transport, and autonomous fulfillment; its current fleet includes Locus Array, Locus Origin, and Locus Vector.

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Skills

About the Role

You will work directly with internal stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve workflows with AI. You will translate business challenges into production-ready AI agents, assistants, integrations, retrieval capabilities, and automated workflows. You will ensure solutions are secure, reliable, measurable, and reusable, while monitoring their performance and business impact.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building, deploying, and supporting production applications.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and experience building APIs, integrations, and automation.
  • Hands-on expertise with large language models, model APIs, AI agents, and agentic workflows.
  • Experience building and deploying enterprise AI agents or workflows using Glean, Claude, or comparable platforms.
  • Knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, semantic or hybrid search, prompt engineering, context engineering, and structured outputs.
  • Experience integrating Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Slack, Jira, Confluence, ERP systems, and modern data platforms.
  • Understanding of enterprise application security, authentication, authorization, OAuth/OIDC, role-based access controls, and permission-aware data access.
  • Familiarity with MCP or similar integration standards.
  • Knowledge of vector databases, enterprise search, and knowledge retrieval systems.
  • Proficiency with automated testing, version control, CI/CD, application observability, and production support.
  • Written and verbal English communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Identify high-value AI opportunities that improve business workflows.
  • Translate business challenges into practical production-ready AI solutions.
  • Design, build, and deploy AI agents, assistants, and automated workflows.
  • Build secure integrations between AI solutions and enterprise systems and data.
  • Build retrieval and grounding capabilities for structured and unstructured enterprise data.
  • Incorporate authentication, authorization, audit logging, observability, cost controls, and human oversight.
  • Build automated evaluations and regression tests, and support deployment and monitoring.
  • Measure solution impact through business outcomes.
  • Create reusable components, templates, reference architectures, and documented patterns.
  • Stay current with AI models, agent frameworks, integration standards, and enterprise AI practices.

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity