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WonderschoolWonderschoolGallup, NM

Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI

Forward Deployed AI Engineer works directly with customers to identify pain points, builds and deploys AI-powered solutions and automations (50% coding), and drives business impact through rapid iteration. Requires Python/JavaScript proficiency, AI tool experience, and founder-like ownership in an in-person environment.

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About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Work directly with users and internal teams to identify high-leverage problems and ship product solutions.
  • Write production code (approximately 50% of your time) and ship weekly improvements across the customer journey.
  • Use tools like Widesurf, Cursor, and other AI accelerators to increase your velocity and quality of output.
  • Build and deploy AI-powered tooling that eliminates manual effort and improves the experience for providers, parents, and government partners.
  • Automate onboarding flows, proposal generation, reporting processes, and other operational workflows.
  • Own full loops: talk to users, design solutions, write code, test, deploy, and monitor adoption.
  • Prioritize based on business impact and collaborate across teams to drive measurable results.

What Success Looks Like

  • Uncover user pain points faster than anyone else and consistently ship solutions that address them.
  • Deploy AI-infused internal tools or product experiences that improve core metrics (conversion, retention, revenue).
  • Fully own feedback loops, from discovery to deployment, and iterate rapidly.
  • Internal teams rely on your tools to operate faster and with fewer resources.
  • Moving fast, staying close to the customer, and operating with very little hand-holding.

Who You Are

  • A builder and founder at heart, you’ve started a company, built products that got users, or made revenue independently.
  • Comfortable talking to users weekly and distilling insight into product decisions.
  • Technical enough to ship production code on your own, experience with Python, JavaScript, or similar languages.
  • Experienced using AI/LLMs and developer tools like Windsurf and Cursor to move faster and smarter.
  • Business-minded, you’ve worked in consulting, managed a P&L, or attended business school and know how to prioritize based on ROI.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and energized by a high-trust, high-impact, in-person environment.

Skills

PythonJavaScriptAILLMsCursorWindsurfWidesurf

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