Forward Deployed Engineer

Alinia’s Mission At Alinia, we enable the safe deployment of AI business-critical operations in industries that rely on policy and value alignment and trust. We m ake safe LLM deployment more accessible and effective for enterprises in regulated industries. The Role At Alinia, Forward Deployed Engineers deliver a working solution for the regulated AI use case a client is struggling with, designed around their problem, their constraints and their architecture, and running in production. Most of that work happens inside an architecture you did not design. Our detection has to fit alongside the client's model, their API gateway, their data pipeline and their approval process. A large part of the role is understanding that landscape well enough to make good decisions in it: what to integrate where, what to measure, and what to tell them when the answer is not the one they were hoping for. For that you will need to understand the current system and problem well enough to know what to build and what reaches you is usually a symptom rather than a diagnosis. In a large organisation the person living with the problem, the team that owns the system it sits in, and the people who set the rules it has to respect are rarely the same, and each holds a partial view. Reaching a useful answer means listening to all of them, reconciling what does not line up, and forming your own view of what is actually happening. So it is a hands-on engineering role with customer-facing work. You will be writing Python, reading other teams' API documentation closely, designing experiments and building evaluations and doing it alongside the client's engineers, who will not take your conclusions on trust, and their compliance experts, who need to know what those conclusions mean for their obligations. You will move between both registers in the same meeting. For most of the process (engagements) you are also the person the client associates with Alinia. What you say we can do becomes what they believe we can do, which is why being straightforward about limits matters as much as delivering. These relationships run for months. What you will do Work with Alinia's engineering and research teams to design and deliver the integration each client needs, building and prototyping yourself where that is the fastest path, and turning the rest into work the team can pick up Be the bridge in both directions: translate a client's constraints into requirements our engineers can act on, and explain what the platform can and cannot do back to the client Understand and validate your understanding of the client’s stack Build reproductions, integrations, and evaluation harnesses in Python against our API and the client's stack Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks that others can use Work directly with client engineers, technical teams and…