Forward Deployment Engineer - AI & Agentic Solutions

Visionary Integration Professionals (VIP) provides industry-leading management consulting, system integration, and technology deployment solutions. VIP helps its clients strengthen mission outcomes by combining deep industry specialization, agility to adapt as needed, and an unwavering commitment to client satisfaction. VIP brings expertise in how to deploy systems that align people, processes, and technology to accelerate strategic change and to deliver business results in partnership with its clients. Since 1996, VIP has worked with over 1,200 public sector and commercial clients. For more information, visit https://trustvip.com.

Join VIP: A strategic approach to accelerate your career! This is a remote position with travel as needed.

Visionary Integration Professionals is seeking a Forward Deployment Engineer - AI & Agentic Solutions to help customers adopt practical, secure, and measurable AI-enabled solutions. This role will support both VIP’s State & Local Government and Commercial business units by working directly with customers to identify high-value use cases, design solution approaches, build prototypes, support pilots, and help transition successful concepts into production-ready implementations. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical consultant who can operate comfortably with business stakeholders, technical teams, and customer leadership. This person should be able to understand business processes, translate them into AI-enabled solution designs, build or guide working prototypes, and help customers adopt solutions that are useful, secure, supportable, and aligned to measurable outcomes.

Customer Delivery Responsibilities:

• Work directly with VIP customers to understand business processes, pain points, operational challenges, and opportunities where AI or agentic solutions can create measurable value.
• Design, prototype, and support implementation of AI-enabled solutions using large language models, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, API integrations, automation tools, and human-in-the-loop review patterns.
• Translate customer requirements into solution designs, technical architectures, implementation plans, prototypes, and production-readiness recommendations.
• Support AI adoption across use cases such as software quality, test automation, knowledge management, document analysis, workflow automation, case management, citizen services, operational reporting, and decision support.
• Build working demos, proof-of-concepts, pilots, and reusable accelerators that can be adapted across VIP customer engagements.
• Support the transition from prototype to production by helping define technical requirements, integration needs, security considerations, testing approaches, support models, and adoption plans.
• Help customers evaluate AI use cases through the lens of data privacy, security, compliance, auditability, accuracy, explainability, and operational risk.
• Lead or support customer workshops focused on AI opportunity discovery, solution design, pilot planning, implementation readiness, and adoption planning.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to both executive and technical audiences.
• Create customer-facing documentation, including solution briefs, architecture summaries, implementation roadmaps, pilot plans, operating procedures, and adoption guides.
• Train customer teams on how to use, manage, evaluate, and improve AI-enabled solutions.
• Help customers move beyond experimentation by identifying practical steps required for adoption, governance, support, and long-term value realization.

VIP Internal Responsibilities:

• Partner with VIP delivery teams to integrate AI capabilities into broader consulting, implementation, quality assurance, DevOps, data, and application modernization efforts.
• Share lessons learned across VIP’s SLG and Commercial delivery teams.
• Provide technical guidance to VIP consultants who are incorporating AI into existing service offerings.
• Contribute to VIP’s evolving delivery methodology for responsible and practical AI adoption.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role such as solution architect, forward deployed engineer, technical consultant, implementation consultant, software engineer, automation architect, AI engineer, or systems integration consultant.
• Strong practical knowledge of various AI/LLM platforms including OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft Copilot/Azure AI, Google Gemini, AWS AI services.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, or implementing AI-enabled solutions, automation solutions, enterprise integrations, workflow-based systems.
• Experience with agentic AI solution patterns, including tool use, multi-step agents, AI workflow orchestration, MCP, retrieval-augmented generation, and evaluation frameworks.
• Strong technical foundation in several of the following areas: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, REST APIs, prompt engineering, data integration, workflow automation, test automation, DevOps, enterprise application integration.
• Ability to work directly with customers and software vendors to gather requirements, assess feasibility, design solutions, explain tradeoffs, and support implementation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical topics to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience creating technical documentation, solution designs, architecture summaries, implementation plans, or customer enablement materials.
• Ability to work independently in ambiguous customer environments while still following structured delivery practices.
• Ability to travel periodically for customer workshops, project meetings, and onsite delivery activities.
• Experience in ERP/CRM implementations, enterprise workflow automation, case management, software quality, test automation, DevOps, application modernization, digital transformation.
• Understanding of concepts and importance of AI governance, responsible AI, model evaluation, data privacy, compliance, and security review.

The compensation for this position is $130,000 to $165,000 per year + commission depending on experience and qualifications. This position is eligible for a benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, a 401(k) Plan and Company Match, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability coverage, Basic Life Insurance, 7 Paid Holidays and Flexible Paid Time Off.