AI Engineer (FDE)
- Hiring from
- Latin America
- Work type
- Remote
- Posted
- Oct 1, 2026
Remote | LatAm - WE ARE EXCLUSIVELY CONSIDERING APPLICATIONS FROM INDIVIDUALS
CURRENTLY RESIDING IN LATAM.
ONLY ENGLISH RESUMES WILL BE CONSIDERED
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ROLE REQUIRES ENGLISH PROFICIENCY (C1-C2 LEVEL)
ABOUT MOTUM
Motum connects experienced developers, engineers, and technical professionals with US companies building committed, long-term tech teams. Our roles are fully remote and full-time, designed for people who want real ownership, meaningful work, and the opportunity to grow inside US-based dynamic teams.
When you join Motum, you work full-time with one company, integrate directly into their team, and build a career with
long-term impact. Ready to join us?
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a hands-on and customer-obsessed Forward Deployed Engineer to join our US-based client's team at the Senior or Staff level. In this role, you'll work directly with customers to understand their technical and business problems, build AI-powered prototypes and production solutions, and take them all the way from proof-of-concept to deployment. If you're a strong engineer who communicates as well as you code, and you thrive in complex customer environments - we want to hear from you!
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work directly with customers to understand their technical and business problems.
- Build prototypes and production solutions using AI and software engineering.
- Integrate customer data, APIs, databases, and existing systems.
- Takes olutions from proof-of-concept through production deployment.
- Trouble shoot complex customer environments.
- Translate customer requirements into technical implementations.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to feed customer requirements back into the product roadmap.
- Lead technical conversations with customer stakeholders, from discovery through deployment.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- English proficiency (C1-C2 level).
- Impeccable attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Senior or Staff-level software engineering experience with Python and TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Hands-on experience building solutions with LLMs and RAG.
- Strong experience with APIs, SQL, and cloud platforms.
- Proficiency with Git and Docker.
- Proven experience working directly with customers on technical solutions: strong communication is as important as engineering ability.
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience with AI agents, MCP, and LangGraph
- Experience with Pinecone, Weaviate, or pgvector
- Experience with multimodal AI
- Experience building AI evaluation frameworks
TECH STACK
Python | LLMs |RAG | OpenAI| Anthropic |LangChain | LlamaIndex | Vector DBs | APIs |FastAPI |PostgreSQL | AWS | Azure | GCP
WE OFFER
- 100% remote role - Work From Home!
- 10 days Paid Time Off (PTO) per year
- Grow along a top US company and shape its future
- Career Advancement Opportunities