Senior AI Engineer - Forward Deployed

Palosade is on a mission to help companies protect their operations and customers by advancing the state of AI security.

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated team player and proven leader. As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you will partner with customers to understand their pain points, design AI-powered agents that address those needs, and deliver measurable value.

Responsibilities

• Brainstorm with customers to understand current security and engineering processes and identify automation opportunities
• Build prototypes tailored to customers on our AI agent platform for demos and proof-of-concepts
• Deploy AI agents into customer environments and build integrations to customer data and tools
• Collaborate with customers using AI engineering techniques to validate efficacy of the AI agents and demonstrate measurable improvements
• Work with our core engineering team to productize prototypes
• Document playbooks for customers and contribute to internal knowledge base for best practices and insights from customer engagements to keep enhancing the product

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software, solutions, or customer engineering roles with a strong emphasis on customer facing engagements
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps practices such as code review, design review, threat modeling, vulnerability scanning, software supply chain
• Hands-on experience building AI/ML-driven applications leveraging large language models (LLMs)
• Proven skills in data preparation, prompt engineering, and RAG pipelines
• Understanding of evaluation metrics, monitoring, and continuous improvement
• Proficient with APIs, JSON, and low-code / no-code platforms such as n8n
• 3+ years of deep fluency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and Python
• 3+ years architecting and operating solutions in public clouds (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline