Tech transformation, societal shifts, and environmental disruption put enormous pressure on critical industries like energy, infrastructure, real estate, and others to adapt, pursue new growth opportunities, and optimize operations. Backed by Powerhouse Ventures.
About the role
Own your client's technical delivery end to end — discovery support, solution design, build, deployment into the client's environment, and a handover their team can actually run. Build the trust machinery behind every system you ship: eval harnesses, replay loops, guardrails, cost/latency budgets, monitoring, and a defined "what happens when it's unsure" path.
What they're looking for
- 5 + years of full-stack delivery skills: Python/FastAPI backends, React/TypeScript front ends, deployment, monitoring, real test coverage, and careful data handling since your pod is the whole team
- Experience shipping LLM/agentic systems to production users, not prototypes, with structured outputs, tool use, retrieval, guardrails, and an eval loop you can defend to a skeptic
- A well-stocked technical toolkit and the judgment to use it: small task models (OCR, ASR, classification, reranking), classical NLP, fine-tuning/distillation, deterministic rules, caching, and a frontier model only where it earns its cost
- Experience deploying inside someone else's cloud, identity provider, repos, and compliance regime, and negotiating their IT constraints without losing the design
- Strong stakeholder skills, running discovery with front-line operators, delivering executive readouts, and pushing back plainly (with a cheaper or safer alternative already sketched) when the ask is wrong
- Comfort with ownership under ambiguity given a vague problem and a deadline, you return with a working thing or a good question
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About AZX
Our mission is to accelerate positive impact in critical industries through AI transformation.
We’re growing quickly and already work with category-leaders in real estate (CBRE), energy (LevelTen Energy), logistics (Flexe) and utilities.
We’re a public benefit corporation, founded in 2024 and have been profitable from inception.
We work on challenges in clean energy, decarbonization, climate risk, energy systems and global economics. We’re building our company for long term success and aim to build the ultimate place to work if you’re passionate about AI and positive impact.
About the Role
We are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join a team that scopes, builds, deploys, and measures AI systems inside client environments — utilities, commercial real estate, and logistics. Your software runs in the client's cloud, under their identity provider and toolchain, inside their compliance framework, integrated with their systems of record — you bring the right mix of models and tools for the job rather than working around it. The work is agentic AI with a correctness envelope: think document intelligence with deterministic, auditable validation where money or compliance is...
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