Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer
webAI is an Austin-based sovereign AI company developing local-first, specialized AI systems that organizations can build, deploy, and operate on infrastructure they own.
Projects
About webAI
webAI provides collaborative intelligence software centered on the webAI App, specialized Personas, and its Intelligence Delivery Network. Its platform is designed to keep intelligence close to organizational data and hardware, support private and specialized models, and enable teams to build, share, and improve AI without relying exclusively on centralized cloud systems.
Skills
About the Role
Deploy, maintain, debug, and optimize production-ready AI systems for secure, distributed environments. Build agentic workflows, translate customer requirements into technical solutions, troubleshoot data pipelines and model inference, analyze hardware performance, and provide technical guidance to enterprise clients.
Requirements
- 5+ years of combined software engineering and machine learning experience
- Active US Security clearance
- Experience deploying and maintaining machine learning or AI systems in production
- Expertise with PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, and JAX
- Experience debugging data pipelines, model inference, and hardware interactions
- Strong communication skills and ability to turn vague requirements into actionable plans
- Ability to work in dynamic, customer-facing environments
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with customers to scope, deploy, and maintain AI solutions in production environments
- Design, develop, and deploy agentic workflows for multi-step reasoning, tool use, and decision-making
- Debug and optimize data pipelines and AI systems on customer networks
- Translate ambiguous customer requirements into well-scoped technical solutions
- Work across model inference and infrastructure automation
- Read hardware schematics and logs to identify performance bottlenecks and suggest improvements
- Serve as a technical advisor to enterprise clients
- Provide feedback to improve product robustness and usability
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits package
- 401(k) match
- Equity options
- $200/month Health & Wellness stipend
- Continuing Education support
- $500/year Function Health subscription
- Free parking for in-office employees
- Flexible Time Off
- Parental leave for eligible employees
- Supplemental life insurance