Forward Deployed AI Engineer

About the role

At Locus Robotics, we build AI-powered systems and intelligent robots that keep global supply chains running. Our platform combines advanced AI, real-time decision-making, and autonomous robotics to help leading companies improve efficiency, scale operations, and adapt to constant change.

Locus Robotics is a place to do meaningful work with real-world impact, where your ideas move quickly from concept to deployment. We invest in our people, encourage continuous learning, and give you the opportunity to grow your career while building technology that is used every day at global scale.

What if you could help shape how AI changes the way work gets done across Locus?

As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you’ll partner directly with teams across Locus Robotics organization to identify where AI can eliminate manual work, simplify complex processes, and make employees more productive. You’ll turn real business challenges into AI agents, intelligent applications, and automated workflows that employees use every day.

You’ll work side-by-side with internal stakeholders to understand how they work today, uncover opportunities to do things better, and rapidly build and deploy solutions that connect with our enterprise systems. And when something works, you’ll help turn it into a reusable approach that can benefit teams across the company.

This is a hands-on enterprise AI development role focused on internal business transformation, not Locus product development or AI model research. We’re looking for a strong software builder who enjoys solving real-world business problems, working directly with users, and taking ideas from concept to production. You’ll also help ensure the AI solutions we build are secure, reliable, measurable, and designed for responsible enterprise use.

- Work Authorization: Open to candidates who are eligible to work in the United States or with active H-1B status requiring a change-of-employer transfer. Locus does not sponsor new initial H-1B lottery filings.

- Location: Role is based at Locus Robotics Headquarters in Wilmington MA USA with a 3 day onsite requirement. Relocation is not available. Only considering local candidates.

Responsibilities

- Work directly with teams across Locus to understand how work gets done today, identify high-value opportunities for AI, and determine where AI can meaningfully improve the workflow, transforming manual and complex processes into smarter, faster, and more efficient ways of working.

- Translate loosely defined business challenges into practical AI solutions, moving quickly from concept and prototype to secure, production-ready tools and workflows.

- Design, build, and deploy AI agents, assistants, and automated workflows using large language models, retrieval, tool integrations, structured outputs, and appropriate human oversight.

- Build secure, reliable integrations that connect AI solutions with enterprise systems and data using APIs, connectors, MCP, and other appropriate integration methods.