About the Role
The Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Data Platform & Agents bridges the gap between complex enterprise data estates and frontier agentic AI execution. You will translate operational workflows and fragmented data sources into production-grade multi-agent platforms, retrieval systems, and LLM evaluation architectures. This is a high-agency "builder-consultant" role for engineers who care about stakeholder adoption and business impact as much as model accuracy and data execution.
Responsibilities
- Architect and deploy custom data interfaces and tool servers using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), function calling, and structured JSON schemas.
- Build high-performance data pipelines, vector search, and hybrid RAG layers over Lakehouse environments.
- Sit side-by-side with client technical teams to run daily requirements discovery, lead architecture reviews, and rapidly ship zero-to-one production Proofs of Concept (PoCs).
- Implement robust evaluation frameworks and observability pipelines to monitor agent behavior and guarantee reliability.
- Collaborate with client security teams to enforce access-control lists (ACLs), multi-tenant isolation, row/column-level permissions, and zero-data-leakage constraints.
Requirements
- Proven track record building and deploying production multi-agent systems, RAG platforms, and MCP servers using frameworks like LangGraph, AutoGen, or CrewAI.
- 5+ years of experience with Databricks, PySpark, Delta Lake, SQL, and Python.
- Specific expertise optimizing high-QPS analytical queries and processing unstructured enterprise documents.
- Strong foundation in quantitative methods, statistics, or applied ML to evaluate model uncertainty, ground truth, and non-deterministic systems systematically.
- Demonstrated ability to run technical discovery calls, manage non-technical client stakeholders, handle technical pushback, and lead co-engineering efforts on-site.
Skills
- Agentic AI
- Orchestration
- Multi-agent systems
- RAG platforms
- MCP servers
- LangGraph
- AutoGen
- CrewAI
- Data Engineering
- Lakehouse
- Databricks
- PySpark
- Delta Lake
- SQL
- Python
- Analytical queries
- Unstructured data processing
- Statistical rigor
- Model evaluations
- Quantitative methods
- Statistics
- Applied ML
- Client-facing communication
- Technical leadership
Location
- US / NYC
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5+ years
Education Level
- M.S./Ph.D. or equivalent industry experience in quantitative methods, statistics, or applied ML
Salary/Compensations
- $180,000 - $240,000
- Potential for annual discretionary bonus
Benefits
- Competitive pay with performance bonuses
- Comprehensive health coverage
- Generous PTO
- Flexible holidays
- Parental leave
- Paid company shutdown the last week of December
- Deep Anthropic Partnership with direct access to partner teams, official training, and early access to unreleased capabilities.
- High Autonomy Culture
- Frontier-Level L&D with generous learning budget, dedicated research time, and access to state-of-the-art AI tools.
About the Company
- Indicium AI was Anthropic’s first European launch partner, a Preferred Anthropic Partner, and is trusted to deploy Claude at an enterprise scale.
- Named the 2026 Databricks Consulting Partner of the Year and backed by Databricks Ventures.
- Builds and deploys production AI systems for complex enterprises, making AI a genuine competitive advantage.
