Member of Technical Staff Forward Deployed AI Engineer
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AI research and product company building diffusion-based language models for production applications.
Palo Alto, United States
Funding history
About Inception
Inception develops and deploys the Mercury family of diffusion LLMs, which generate and refine output in parallel to target lower-latency, lower-cost production AI workloads.
Skills
About the Role
You will work directly with enterprise customers to identify AI workflows, build full-stack applications and rapid proofs of concept, collect and use customer data, create evaluation systems, optimize models and prompts, and turn deployments into repeatable product capabilities.
Requirements
- Engineering skills in Python and modern full-stack development
- Experience building, deploying, or integrating AI or LLM products for users or customers
- Familiarity with LLM evaluation, data pipelines, model tuning, prompt optimization, or agentic workflows
- Customer-facing enterprise experience
- Experience deploying software or AI systems in enterprise environments
- Ability to translate ambiguous customer needs into technical solutions
- Willingness to travel occasionally for strategic customer deployments
Responsibilities
- Build reliable, scalable software systems
- Work with enterprise customers to identify and deploy high-value AI workflows
- Build and iterate on rapid proofs of concept
- Build full-stack AI applications, integrations, internal tools, and customer-facing systems
- Collect and operationalize customer data and feedback loops
- Define deployment metrics and design LLM-as-judge evaluation workflows
- Tune models, prompts, workflows, and system architecture
- Build and optimize agentic workflows
- Turn customer deployments into repeatable product patterns and platform capabilities
Benefits
- Equity
- Flexible vacation and paid time off
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k match
- Catered meals
- Commuter subsidies