Forward Deployed Engineer, Modus Create
Python, AI/ML, Generative AI
Digital product engineering partner for forward-thinking businesses
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Digital product engineering partner for forward-thinking businesses
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To partner with companies building for tomorrow and leading in the digital age.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a strong engineer who is comfortable moving between customer conversations, architecture, coding, prototyping, and production delivery
- Python — Strong software engineering and application development experience
- Application Engineering — Experience building, testing, and deploying production applications
- AI/ML Integration — Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into applications and workflows
- APIs & System Integration — Experience with APIs, enterprise systems, third-party platforms, and data sources
- LLMs / Generative AI — Hands-on experience building applications using LLMs and Generative AI
- Cloud Platforms — Experience with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP
- TypeScript — Experience developing modern applications or services
- Agent Orchestration — Experience or understanding of AI agents, tool calling, agentic workflows, or orchestration frameworks
- Customer-Facing / Consulting — Ability to work directly with clients and translate business problems into technical solutions
- Solution Architecture — Ability to design end-to-end solutions that are scalable, secure, and aligned to business objectives
- Typically 5+ years' experience in software engineering, AI/ML engineering, or a related technical discipline
- Experience building and deploying AI/ML or Generative AI applications
- Strong problem-solving skills and comfort working with incomplete or evolving requirements
- Ability to rapidly prototype and turn ideas into working software
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- A product-oriented mindset focused on solving the user's problem rather than simply delivering requirements
- Ability to work independently within complex enterprise environments
Desirable
- Experience with RAG, vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search
- Consulting, systems integration, or professional services experience
- Experience with AI agent frameworks and orchestration platforms
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, or Infrastructure as Code
- Experience taking AI/ML prototypes through to production
- Experience working with large or complex enterprise customers
- Experience working in regulated or highly controlled environments
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to work closely with clients to identify, prototype, and deploy AI-powered solutions to real-world business challenges
- This is a highly hands-on, customer-facing role combining AI engineering, software development, solution architecture, and consulting. You will work directly with users and stakeholders to understand their needs, rapidly build solutions, and iterate based on real-world feedback
- Work directly with clients to understand business challenges, workflows, data, systems, and technical requirements
- Translate ambiguous problems into practical AI and software solutions
- Design, build, and deploy AI-powered applications, agents, copilots, and intelligent workflows
- Integrate LLMs, Generative AI, APIs, enterprise systems, and data sources
- Rapidly prototype solutions and validate them with users
- Develop supporting APIs, services, data pipelines, and application infrastructure
- Design scalable, secure, and maintainable technical architectures
- Implement evaluation, monitoring, observability, and feedback mechanisms for AI solutions
- Collaborate with product, data, engineering, and business teams to move successful prototypes into production
- Communicate technical concepts and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- What Success Looks Like:
- You will be successful when you can take an ambiguous customer problem and turn it into a working AI capability that people actually use
- The role requires someone who can move quickly between:
- Customer problem → solution design → architecture → code → prototype → user feedback → iteration → production
Our take
Modus Create is a digital transformation firm that delivers digital strategy, product development, platform modernization and digital operations services. Essentially, it works with clients to assess and improve their digital transformation roadmaps so they can better optimize operations and enhance revenue.
The company's comprehensive suite of services includes but is not limited to security auditing, agile product development, cloud migration and business process automation. This all-in-one approach is attractive to enterprise clients and enables Modus Create to serve the likes of Toyota, Sephora and Adidas.
With an established presence in the space, its expected that Modus Create will continue its path of success for the foreseeable future. It has earned a number of industry accolades, and so far proved its staying power as a trusted transformation partner.
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Company
Company HQ
Hunter Mill District, Reston, VA
Leadership
Sharon Lynch
(CEO)Prior to joining Modus Create in 2025, Sharon spent nearly 12 years at Slalom as a GM of Slalom Build North America. She was also a Manager at Accenture for nearly 8 years.
Benjamin Robin
(COO & CFO)Prior to joining Modus Create in 2022, Benjamin spent 7 years at Tweag as CFO and GM. He also served as the Head of Finance, Tax & Administration at EDP Renewables France & Belgium, and as a Finance & Accounting Manager at Salt Mobile.
Kevin McClelland
(CGO)Alongside Modus Create, Kevin is a Visiting Lecturer of Marketing/Management at the University of Washington. Previously, he spent nearly 12 years at Slalom, holding various roles, including Executive Lead of Slalom AI.
Jon Allegre
(CCO)Prior to joining Modus Create in 20245, Jon spent nearly 15 years at Slalom. He joined Slalom in 2010 as a Practice Area Director before moving into the Role of Managing Director in 2019, a role he held until leaving the company in 2025.
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