About Forward
Forward is a consulting firm that works exclusively with independent consultants to help startups build their engineering organizations.
About the Work
Keywords: Python, AI
Budget: $200k/year, with benefits + 401k
Hours per week: 40
Term: 3 months with possibility of extension
Location: U.S and EMEA preferred
Start date: Immediately
Context:
We're working with a consulting firm that helps major enterprise customers. You will be authoring complex multi-turn prompts, wiring up production-grade integrations between AI agents and enterprise data, and standing up automated eval suites to keep agent quality high as things scale.
In this role, you'll be building - most of your time will be on hands-on delivery. The remainder will be split between maintaining critical open-source tooling and shaping the product roadmap by closing the feedback loop from clients. They're looking for an Applied AI Engineer who can turn prototypes into production reality: people who know the difference between a working demo and a reliable agent at scale.
About You
Roughly in order of importance:
- You have experience deploying AI in production
- You have experience with prompt engineering and agent frameworks
- You have expert-level Python and automation tools (e.g., Antigravity)
- You are deeply familiar with LLMs (nuances of temperature, context windows, and RAG)
- You've built automated evaluation frameworks for AI outputs
- You have 7+ years of experience
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