Forward Deployed Engineer

GAC Solutions
United StatesFull-timePosted Sep 18, 2026

About the role

As an FDE / Agent Engineer, you’ll lead the delivery of production-grade Conversational AI and agentic solutions for enterprise customers. You’ll transform prototypes into scalable, secure AI systems and work directly with customer engineering teams to deliver measurable business value.

Key Responsibilities

Build and deploy Conversational AI, CX applications, and multi-agent workflows.

Integrate AI agents with APIs, enterprise systems, legacy data, knowledge bases, and security infrastructure.

Design evaluation, observability, tracing, and monitoring for agent performance, tool selection, latency, and reliability.

Develop reusable solutions and identify product improvements from customer implementations.

Partner with customer engineering teams on architecture, development, deployment, and adoption.

Own technical delivery from prototype through production deployment.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

5+ years of software development, preferably with Python.

Experience building AI/ML systems on cloud platforms, especially GCP.

Experience with Terraform/IaC, cloud resources, agents, functions, and networking.

Experience developing full-stack enterprise applications and customer-facing solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s/PhD in AI, CS, or related field.

Experience with multi-agent frameworks, ReAct, and self-reflection.

Expertise in agent debugging, tool selection, tracing, and observability.

Experience with RAG, enterprise knowledge bases, and chunking optimization.

Experience troubleshooting high-traffic production systems under critical conditions.

Responsibilities

  • Build and deploy Conversational AI, CX applications, and multi-agent workflows.
  • Integrate AI agents with APIs, enterprise systems, legacy data, knowledge bases, and security infrastructure.
  • Design evaluation, observability, tracing, and monitoring for agent performance, tool selection, latency, and reliability.
  • Develop reusable solutions and identify product improvements from customer implementations.
  • Partner with customer engineering teams on architecture, development, deployment, and adoption.
  • Own technical delivery from prototype through production deployment.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of software development, preferably with Python.
  • Experience building AI/ML systems on cloud platforms, especially GCP.
  • Experience with Terraform/IaC, cloud resources, agents, functions, and networking.
  • Experience developing full-stack enterprise applications and customer-facing solutions.

Skills mentioned

PythonGenerative AIAI AgentsRetrieval-Augmented GenerationGoogle CloudTerraformInfrastructure as CodeAPI IntegrationBackend DevelopmentOpenTelemetry

About GAC Solutions

GAC Solutions was designed to help our client partners build winning teams. We believe expertise born from extensive experience is the best foundation to achieve this mission. Founded in 2012, GAC is headquartered in Chicago, IL, with global offices in Hyderabad, India and Monterrey, Mexico. GAC Solutions is a diverse Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), certified by the National Minority Supplier Development Council. With decades of staffing expertise, GAC has developed processes to improve the staffing transformation journey for leading Fortune 500 organizations, High Tech, Big-4 Consulting Firms, Fashion & Retail Organizations, Financial Services Leaders, Big Pharma, Manufacturing Giants, and more. We have the capability to support needs across the US, whether a large metropolitan hub or remote location. With client partners in more than 30 states and counting, as well as Latin America, EMEA, and APAC, you can trust that GAC Solutions knows your labor market. Our specialties within the Technical (IT), Life Sciences, Engineering, and Professional Staffing space include: Contract Staffing, Executive Search, Direct Hire, and RPO Solutions. Our other Practice Areas include: SAP, Cloud & Data, Quality Engineering & Automation, and Advisory. We Excel and Take Pride in: • Continuing Education • Diversity Initiatives • Retention • Diversity Sourcing Processes • Social Responsibility • Submittal to Hire Ratios For more information, visit www.gacsol.com

Information Technology & Services501-1,000 employeesSchaumburg, Illinois