Middle/Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Python, AI)

About the role

Why Join Exadel

We’re an AI-first global tech company with 25+ years of engineering leadership, 2,000+ team members, and 500+ active projects powering Fortune 500 clients, including HBO, Microsoft, Google, and Starbucks.

From AI platforms to digital transformation, we partner with enterprise leaders to build what’s next. What powers it all? Our people are ambitious, collaborative, and constantly evolving.

What You’ll Do

- Embed within client environments, working onsite with the people performing the work and the executives sponsoring it.

- Lead discovery sessions to understand the client’s business, systems, data, operating model, and underlying challenges.

- Translate ambiguous business problems into prioritized and quantified opportunity maps, supported by clear baselines and accountable client owners.

- Identify which opportunities are genuinely worth pursuing and advise against initiatives that do not provide sufficient business value.

- Build trust in the client’s data and deliver working, data-grounded prototypes within the first weeks of an engagement.

- Design, develop, debug, and deploy production-grade AI agents, integrations, data pipelines, and applications within client systems.

- Remain hands-on in the code whenever technical progress or delivery outcomes depend on it.

- Define evaluation frameworks, quality thresholds, regression gates, and monitoring strategies for AI and agentic systems.

- Monitor model and data drift and design effective human-in-the-loop controls for high-impact workflows.

- Scope, sequence, and coordinate delivery across engineers, architects, and specialist contributors.

- Make explicit trade-offs between scope, delivery speed, quality, and business value.

- Orchestrate Exadel Colleague to accelerate delivery and scale successful implementation patterns.

- Convert successful deployments into reusable reference architectures, agent templates, integration blueprints, evaluation frameworks, and delivery playbooks.

- Produce clear technical documentation, operational runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials.

- Train client teams to independently operate, maintain, and extend delivered solutions.

- For Senior FDEs, independently lead executive discovery, direct pod execution, and take full accountability for engagement outcomes.

- For Senior FDEs, mentor other Forward Deployed Engineers and ensure reusable delivery patterns are incorporated into Exadel Colleague.

What You Bring

- Mid-level hands-on technical experience, including client-facing capacity.

- For the Senior Forward Deployed Engineer level, senior-level experience, including technical delivery leadership across multidisciplinary teams or pods.

- A demonstrated record of delivering production software used by real users and business teams.