AI Engineer Types

Select the type of AI engineer you need for your project:

Forward Deployed Engineer

Customer-facing AI strategist who works embedded in client workflows. Focuses on AI use case definition, requirements gathering, and consultative teaming. More strategic than hands-on coding.

Applied AI Engineer

Production-focused engineer who pushes code to core codebases regularly. Technical customer-facing role working on well-defined use cases. Overlaps with Forward Deployed Engineer skills but more implementation-focused.

Machine Learning Engineer

Specialist in building and deploying machine learning models. Handles supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. Manages data pipelines, model monitoring, and scaling. Focuses on small language models and model distillation.