Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nexera is an AI-native consulting firm that builds intelligent, custom solutions for organizations navigating the age of AI. The Forward Deployed AI Consultant role involves embedding with clients to design and implement AI-powered solutions that address their business challenges and drive measurable outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with customers to identify high-value business problems, assess feasibility, and scope AI-powered solutions that drive real outcomes
- Own full solution design and implementation including specifications, architecture, production source code, test plans, and infrastructure-as-code, using modern AI-assisted development workflows
- Stand up deployment pipelines, implement DevSecOps practices, and ensure solutions meet enterprise-grade reliability and security standards
- Design agent evaluation frameworks, monitor production AI systems, and iterate based on real-world performance and customer feedback
- Lead change management with customer organizations. Train end users, build documentation, and ensure solutions are embraced, not just delivered
- Experiment with and define agentic workflows and tools that improve product design, the SDLC, and the overall quality of how Nexera delivers. Your ideas become part of our operating model
Skills
- 5+ years of experience building production business solutions. You have shipped real software that real people use
- Demonstrated agentic engineering experience: You have built with AI agents, used AI-powered development tools in production workflows, and understand the patterns and failure modes of LLM-driven systems
- Strong communication and customer management skills: You can explain a technical architecture to a VP and pair-program with a junior developer in the same afternoon
- Problem-solving and analytical mindset: You break down ambiguous business problems into tractable technical solutions
- Agent design, development, evaluation, and operations: You understand the full agent lifecycle, from prompt design and tool integration through evaluation harnesses and production monitoring
- Relentless curiosity: You learn new tools and frameworks because you're drawn to them. You have opinions about where AI development is headed and you're eager to prove them out
- Consulting or client-facing experience preferred: You know how to manage stakeholders, navigate ambiguity, and deliver under pressure in someone else's environment
- Full-stack web technologies: Modern frameworks (React, Next.js, Node, Python/FastAPI, etc.)
- Cloud infrastructure: Azure, Google Cloud, and/or AWS, including infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, Bicep, CDK)
- AI platforms: Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, and/or Google Gemini APIs and SDKs for building production AI features
- AI-enabled IDEs: Visual Studio, VS Code, Google Anti-Gravity, Cursor
- AI CLI and agentic tools: Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot
Benefits
- Remote-first (US-based); flexible work schedule; occasional travel to customer sites as needed
- We invest in our people with cutting-edge tooling, continuous learning, and a culture that rewards pushing limits and driving innovation
- Growth without ceilings. We invest in learning, reward initiative, and promote based on impact, not tenure
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