Forward Deployment Engineer

About Xebia

Role Overview

Accountabilities and Delivery

• Design, build, deploy and improve enterprise-grade agentic AI applications for aviation scenarios.
• Build agents that reason across steps, call tools and APIs, manage context, handle exceptions and support human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Take solutions from discovery to production and own a domain outcome.
• Coordinate with product, architecture and engineering stakeholders, and identify when AI is not the right tool.

AI Engineering

• Implement RAG pipelines covering ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, retrieval tuning, grounding and source traceability.
• Build MCP integrations with backend systems through REST/OpenAPI, webhooks and event-driven patterns.
• Apply tool calling, schema-validated outputs, retries, fallbacks and guardrails.
• Own testing, evaluation, observability, logging, versioning and feedback loops for reliability, accuracy, latency, security and cost.
• Apply security, privacy, access control, auditability, responsible AI and governance across deployments.

Education and Experience

• Around three years building production-grade software with GenAI and LLMs, including about one year of hands-on agentic AI experience.
• Hands-on experience or strong working knowledge of MCP.
• Strong Python and basic knowledge of at least one of TypeScript or JavaScript.
• Knowledge of async programming, FastAPI, Pydantic, Git, CI/CD, testing, error handling and logging.
• Experience with an agent framework or enterprise AI platform and a vector database or search platform.
• Experience integrating enterprise systems and deploying on cloud with containers.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Fluent English and comfort in a culturally diverse international team.

Advantageous Background

• Aviation or airline domain knowledge is a strong asset.
• Classical machine learning, data science and full-stack development experience are strong assets.
• Relevant cloud-AI, GenAI, agentic-AI or MLOps certifications are advantageous.

Growth Path