Perceptron AI
Applied AI Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
$180K–$250K
Bellevue, WA · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Education
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or equivalent practical experience
About the job
Build and deploy production LLM systems for enterprise customers, owning deployments end to end and feeding field insights into product and research roadmaps.
What you'll do
- Translate customer business problems into production LLM systems and coordinate technical delivery.
- Architect, build, and operate LLM applications, integrations, evaluation systems, and deployment infrastructure.
- Drive safe, reliable adoption through enterprise security controls, rollout planning, and field feedback.
What they ask for
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Robotics, or equivalent practical experience.
- Production programming experience in Python; experience with a systems language such as C++, Rust, or C.
- Experience designing and implementing AI evaluation frameworks, monitoring systems, and reliability controls.
- Ability to design end-to-end systems and build secure enterprise integrations.
Nice to have
- Experience building reusable platforms or deployment tooling, or operating AI systems under strict constraints.
- Experience driving AI adoption or delivering systems in regulated or high-stakes sectors; familiarity with MLOps-adjacent workflows.
Pay
$180,000 to $250,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, C++, Rust, C
AI focus
Build and deploy production LLM and multimodal AI systems, including agent architectures, tool use, evaluation, safety, and reliability.
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