Forward Deployed AI Engineer

We are looking for a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to deploy, integrate, optimize, and operationalize enterprise Generative AI platforms within secure, on-premise and air-gapped banking environments.

You will work closely with client IT, infrastructure, security, engineering, and AI teams to turn AI platform architectures into reliable, production-ready deployments.

• Deploy and configure NVIDIA NIMs, LLMs, DataRobot, Graph Databases, and related AI platforms.
  
• Install and manage AI workloads on Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes environments.
  
• Package and deploy container images, dependencies, and LLM model weights in air-gapped environments.
  
• Configure and optimize NVIDIA GPU Operator, GPU time-slicing and MIG for AI workloads.
  
• Optimize LLM inference performance, including TTFT, throughput, latency and GPU utilization.
  
• Build and manage CI/CD and GitOps pipelines using tools such as ArgoCD and OpenShift Pipelines.
  
• Develop and maintain Helm charts, Kustomize manifests and Kubernetes configurations.
  
• Troubleshoot deployment, infrastructure, networking and performance issues in secure client environments.
  
• Work directly with client IT, Security and Infrastructure teams to resolve technical blockers and ensure successful deployments.
  

• 4+ years of experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering or a related field.
  
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in MLOps / LLMOps.
  
• Strong experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes.
  
• Hands-on experience with NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA GPU Operator.
  
• Experience deploying LLMs, NVIDIA NIM, Triton or enterprise AI platforms.
  
• Strong understanding of containerization, Docker/OCI images and Kubernetes workloads.
  
• Experience with Helm, Kustomize, Kubernetes Operators and GitOps.
  
• Experience with ArgoCD, OpenShift Pipelines or similar CI/CD tools.
  
• Understanding of air-gapped / disconnected environments and offline software deployment.
  
• Good understanding of enterprise authentication and security frameworks such as Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos and OAuth.
  
• Experience with secure secrets management using HashiCorp Vault, OpenShift Secrets or similar technologies.
  
• Strong troubleshooting, communication and client-facing skills.
  

• Experience deploying AI platforms in Banking / BFSI or highly regulated environments.
  
• Experience working in air-gapped or disconnected data centers.
  
• CKA / CKAD certification.
  
• Experience with NVIDIA NIM, Triton Inference Server or DataRobot.
  
• Experience with Graph Databases such as Neo4j or ArangoDB.
  
• Experience with GPU performance tuning, MIG and GPU time-slicing.
  
• Experience with large-scale LLM inference and RAG deployments.