Forward Deployed AI Engineer

About JumpOff

JumpOff is an AI advisory and transformation firm. We build working AI and the adoption to run it, for enterprises, financial sponsors and owner-led companies across sectors including financial services, private equity, industrials, automotive, distribution, consumer, healthcare and legal services. We're focused on AI initiatives with high ROI that lasts past the excitement. We are tool-agnostic by design, Anthropic certified, and OpenAI and Microsoft AI Cloud Partners.

Getting a company to the frontier is half the job. The other half is preparing it to stay there without us.

To support client demand and growth we are hiring Forward Deployed AI Engineers in Atlanta.

About the role

You build the AI systems our clients run on. You work inside the client's own systems and data, next to their teams, and take a solution from first prototype to something in production that their people use every day. You report to our AI Engineering Lead and work alongside the people who own the business side of each engagement.

Most of your time goes to building: pipelines, integrations, LLM-based workflows and the testing and monitoring around them. Some of it is with clients, working out what their data and systems can support. Some of it goes into the shared tools we carry from one engagement to the next.

What you will do

• Build and deploy AI solutions in client environments: data pipelines, integrations with client systems, LLM-based workflows and agents, and the applications people use them through
• Work with client technical teams on access, environments and security
• Test model output before it reaches users, and monitor it once it is live
• Fix what breaks in production, and improve what you built based on how people use it
• Turn one-off builds into reusable components for the next engagement
• Document what you build so the client's team can run it
• Travel to client sites, up to about 30% of the time
• Other duties as assigned

What you will learn here

• Shipping AI into businesses with payrolls, customers and auditors, across many industries and many technology stacks
• Scoping with the people who own the business outcome, so what you build is worth building
• Frontier tooling in depth, across vendors, with certification supported
• Engineering standards for production AI, from the people setting them

Who you work with

Strategists, builders and operators from private equity, management consulting and technology, with backgrounds at companies like Boston Consulting Group, Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft, Meta and AbbVie. We use frontier models every day, on client work and on our own, we move quickly, and we say what we think. You work directly with the founder.

Low-ego, high-agency team players who are energized by the AI moment, thrive on delivering transformational results for our clients and navigating the rapidly expanding AI frontier from up close.

What this sets you up for

Engineers who can make AI hold up in production and explain it to the people paying for it are rare, and will stay in demand. This role builds both, at the frontier and across industries. The role grows with what you show you can own.

Job Requirements*

What you bring on day one

• 3+ years building and shipping software that people relied on in production
• Strong Python and SQL
• APIs and integrations: getting data out of one system, into another, and keeping the two in sync
• Hands-on deployment on AWS, Azure or GCP
• LLMs in production or close to it, with a habit of evaluating output before it reaches users
• Daily use of coding agents, and the discipline to check what they produce
• Clear explanations of technical choices for people who do not care how it was built
• Discretion. You will see client data and firm-level information
• Based in Atlanta and working from our Sandy Springs office, with client travel. Eligible to work in the US

Preferred

• A customer-facing technical role: solutions, implementation or forward-deployed engineering
• Startup experience, or something you built from zero
• Microsoft or AWS data and AI services
• Work with sensitive or regulated data, such as HIPAA, SOC 2 or financial data

Not required

• An ML research or model-training background
• Prior consulting experience
• A computer science degree, where experience shows the equivalent

JumpOff is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected characteristic. If you need an accommodation during the application process, contact [email protected]