Software Engineer (Forward Deployed AI)
- Source: Ashby
- Ramp
- $189,000 to $330,000 /yr
- On-site
- New York City
- Full-Time
- Mid level
Job Description
- As a software engineer on the AI Soltuions team, you will co-lead customer engagements with an AI Solutions Strategist
- The Strategist owns business discovery, ROI narrative, stakeholder alignment, and rollout planning. The engineer owns technical discovery, solution design, prototyping, implementation, and production readiness
- This is a deeply client-facing role. You will spend significant time with customers and end users, moving projects from bootcamp and workflow discovery through implementation, launch, and steady production usage
- Translate customer goals into clear system requirements and non-functional requirements covering security, privacy, reliability, performance, scalability, and cost
- Partner directly with customers to understand current workflows, constraints, systems, data quality, and adoption blockers
- Create and maintain solution architecture artifacts:
- System context and data flow diagrams
- Integration plan across Ramp and customer systems
- Security model covering permissions, access patterns, and auditability
- Evaluation plan covering quality metrics, acceptance tests, and red-teaming
- Operational plan covering monitoring, alerting, incident response, and runbooks
- Leverage core Ramp primitives to build efficiently, reusing existing product capabilities wherever possible
- Prototype and validate workflows with end users to de-risk the approach and prove product-market fit
- Drive projects from bootcamp and technical discovery through implementation, production launch, and operational handoff
- Ensure deployed workflows are reliable, supportable, measurable, and adopted by customer teams
- Convert deployments into reusable patterns, components, and playbooks for future AI Solutions projects
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- One Medical Membership
- 401(k) including an employer match
- Parental leave
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Unlimited PTO
- Pet Insurance
- WFH stipend
- Relocation support to move to NYC- Nice to have: Familiarity with finance operations workflows such as AP, procurement, expenses, close, reconciliation, and reporting
- Strong fundamentals in ML/GenAI, including problem decomposition, evaluation, and deployment trade-offs
- Experience in solutions architecture, technical consulting, forward deployed engineering, or pre-sales engineering
- Comfort working across APIs, integrations, data pipelines, customer systems, and cloud infrastructure
- Experience shipping production software in high-ownership environments
- Ability to design secure, scalable systems and produce clear technical documentation
- Experience building LLM systems, including RAG, agents, monitoring, and evals
- Willingness to travel up to ~75% as needed, flexible based on project needs and client needs
- Ability to work directly with enterprise customers from discovery through production implementation
- Strong coding ability in at least one of: Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Go, or similar
- Experience with cloud architecture on AWS, GCP, or Azure, and distributed systems patterns
Skills
- Python
- TypeScript
- microsoft-typescript
- javascript
- Java
- Golang
- amazon-web-services
- google-cloud-platform
- microsoft-azure
- ashby
