Forward Deployed Engineer

  • Full time
  • Govan Mbeki, Mpumalanga, South Africa View on Map
  • posted 3 weeks ago
  • Posted : August 6, 2026 -Accepting applications

Job Description

**Location:** Remote / Hybrid

**Experience:** 2+ Years

**Compensation:** Competitive Salary

**About ROXC**

ROXC partners with organizations to design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions that solve real business problems. We work closely with clients to understand their workflows, identify opportunities, and deliver production-ready AI systems that create measurable business impact.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you’ll work at the intersection of engineering, AI, product, and customer success—partnering directly with clients to understand their challenges and delivering AI solutions that create real value.

Important Requirement

Please Apply Only If You Have Contributed To At Least One Production-ready AI Application That Is Being Used By Real Users In a Production Environment. This Experience May Come From

– Your current or previous organization
– A self-initiated project with real users
– A freelance or consulting engagement

We’re looking for engineers who have experienced the complete journey of taking an AI application from idea to production.

What You’ll Do

– Partner directly with clients to understand business workflows, technical requirements, and operational challenges.
– Design, build, and deploy AI-powered applications tailored to customer needs.
– Build scalable full-stack applications with a strong focus on reliability and maintainability.
– Integrate LLMs, AI services, APIs, databases, and third-party platforms into production systems.
– Deploy applications to cloud environments and monitor production performance.

**Required Qualifications**

– 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
– Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript.
– Experience with backend development using Node.js and Express.
– Strong understanding of REST APIs and system integrations.
– Experience working with SQL databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
– Experience building AI applications using modern LLM APIs and AI frameworks.
– Good understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, prompt engineering, tool integrations, and AI evaluation.
– Comfortable working directly with customers and independently driving projects to completion.

Bonus Points

**We’ll Give Additional Consideration If You Have**

– Contributed to open-source projects.
– Delivered software or AI solutions as a freelancer or consultant.
– Experience building AI services with Python and FastAPI.
– Experience deploying and managing applications on cloud platforms.
– Strong understanding of system design, scalability, observability, and security.

What You’ll Enjoy

– Competitive salary.
– Remote-first with hybrid collaboration opportunities.
– Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI products and enterprise deployments.
– High ownership and the ability to influence technical and product decisions.
– Continuous learning and exposure to the latest AI technologies.
– A fast-moving, engineering-driven culture focused on solving meaningful customer problems.

If you’re excited about building production-grade AI systems, working directly with customers, and solving complex business problems through technology, we’d love to hear from you.

**Join ROXC and help build AI solutions that deliver measurable business impact.**

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