Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Company Description About Lucenza PartnersLucenza Partners helps organizations across EMEA translate AI ambition into measurable business value. We work closely with leadership teams to understand business operations, identify high-impact AI opportunities, assess organizational readiness, and design and implement scalable, governed AI solutions integrated into existing processes and systems.Our four core services—Transformation Execution, Enterprise AI Strategy & Governance, AI for Business Leaders, and Agentic AI & Workflow Transformation—combine strategic advisory with hands-on engineering and implementation expertise.We bridge the gap between AI strategy and execution, helping organizations move beyond isolated experiments toward responsible, scalable AI adoption that delivers tangible business outcomes.Role Description :Turn business opportunities into working AI solutionsWe are looking for a Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer who combines strong software engineering capabilities with business understanding, problem-solving skills, and confident client communication to design, build, and deploy AI solutions that solve real business challenges.You will work directly with Lucenza’s leadership and client teams, owning technical delivery from discovery and prototyping through integration, production deployment and adoption.What you will doUnderstand the business. Work with stakeholders to map processes, identify bottlenecks and decision points, assess available data, and define valuable, achievable use cases.Design the solution. Select the appropriate combination of AI, conventional software, workflow automation and human review. Explain architectural choices and trade-offs clearly.Build and integrate. Develop AI applications, agents, backend services and practical user interfaces. Connect solutions to enterprise systems through APIs, databases, webhooks and secure authentication.Deliver reliable AI. Implement structured outputs, tool calling, retrieval where appropriate, evaluation datasets and controls suited to the business workflow.Handle real-world exceptions. Build monitoring, timeouts, controlled retries, fallbacks, approval steps and recovery procedures. Ensure failures are visible and actionable.Own deployment. Take solutions into client environments, resolve technical blockers, manage releases and support stabilization after launch.Enable adoption. Work alongside users, incorporate feedback, document solutions and transfer knowledge so designated teams can operate and maintain them.Demonstrate value. Establish baselines and track agreed measures such as time saved, accuracy, adoption, operating cost or financial impact.Strengthen Lucenza’s delivery capability. Turn successful patterns into reusable components, connectors, evaluation methods and deployment playbooks.What you bringTypically 5+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of production systems. Equivalent evidence of delivery is welcome.Hands-on experience building and deploying AI-enabled applications used in real business operations.Strong Python skills and working proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript.Solid experience with REST APIs, SQL, data processing, authentication and third-party integrations.Practical understanding of LLM applications, including prompting, structured outputs, tool use, retrieval, evaluation and model limitations.Experience deploying and supporting applications on at least one major cloud platform or within client-hosted environments.Good engineering practices: version control, testing, code review, containerization, deployment automation and observability.The ability to investigate unfamiliar systems, diagnose failures and make sound decisions with incomplete information.Clear communication with both engineers and business stakeholders, including the confidence to challenge assumptions constructively.Strong ownership: you scope work realistically, communicate risks early and follow through to a working outcome.Professional proficiency in English.Particularly valuableExperience in banking, telecommunications, healthcare, retail or other operationally complex sectors.Integration experience with ERP, CRM, finance, document-management or Microsoft 365 environments.Familiarity with workflow tools such as n8n, Power Automate or equivalent platforms.Experience with access controls, audit trails, sensitive data and restricted client environments.Previous work in forward deployed engineering, technical consulting, solutions engineering or startup delivery.Effective use of AI coding assistants, supported by careful review and testing of generated code.Arabic proficiency and experience working with organizations in Egypt or the GCC is desirable.What success looks likeYour solutions are used in everyday operations, perform against agreed acceptance criteria and deliver measurable improvements. Users understand their capabilities and limitations. Failures can be detected and recovered from. Each engagement also leaves Lucenza better equipped to deliver the next one.Why LucenzaWork directly with decision-makers, solve meaningful business problems and help shape how Lucenza delivers AI transformation. You will have technical ownership, exposure to varied client challenges and the opportunity to build capabilities that extend across engagements.How to applySend your CV or professional profile to hr@luncenzapartners.com together with a brief description and a demo of two relevant solutions you personally delivered.For each example, explain:The business problem and your contribution.What you built and how it connected to existing systems.Who used it and what outcome it achieved.One important failure or limitation and how you addressed it.Links to code, demonstrations or architecture walkthroughs are welcome. Anonymized examples are acceptable where client confidentiality applies.Selection includes a practical technical discussion and a short exercise using fictional data.