The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) is the primary delivery mechanism of Lineage’s enterprise AI Center of Excellence (CoE), the engineer who sits at the intersection of the AI platform and the business problem. FDEs embed directly with business functions across Lineage to translate high-value use cases into production AI solutions that make our employees more productive and our operations more effective.
At Lineage, the aim is not to build the largest technology team; instead, we are creating a small, highly skilled group that focuses on having the right mix of talents, skills, and the capacity to learn in areas that define our core differentiation. We leverage cloud services, best-of-breed libraries and components, and external teams to augment our capabilities with sufficient capacity. This means that in addition to being a firsthand technologist, you also need to be able to take a project from an ambiguous business need to a production-grade solution, and to collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver.
As a company, Lineage builds state-of-the-art systems to make our employees productive, to meet and exceed our customers’ expectations, to assist in our growth, and to create a technology platform that enables Lineage to achieve its vision of transforming the food supply chain. This is one of the most impactful roles in that journey, and it will require someone who has a true passion for solving real business problems with the responsible application of AI, and for raising the bar for the engineers who follow.
Primary Responsibilities:
Scope, architect, and deliver end-to-end AI solutions, from data ingestion,prompt engineering,skilland agent buildthrough deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
Education and Work Experience:
4+ years of experience in software engineering, applied ML/AI, or solutions engineering, with direct client- or stakeholder-facing delivery.
Proficiencyin Python and experience with modern AI/ML tooling (LLM APIs, agent frameworks, vector databases, RAG pipelines).
Track recordof shipping AI/ML use cases in enterprise environments (financial services, healthcare, manufacturing,logistics, or similar) is a plus.
Experience building with agentic AI frameworks (e.g.,LangChain,CrewAI,AutoGen) and evaluating model outputs systematically is a plus.
Previousexposure to supply chain technologies including WMS, TMS, YMS, and related systems is a plus.
Required Skills and Abilities:
Why Lineage?
This is an excellent position to begin your career path within Lineage! Success in this role enables greater responsibilities and promotions! A career at Lineage starts with learning about our business and how each team member plays a part each and every day to satisfy our customers’ requirements. Beyond that, you’ll help us grow and learn on our journey to be the very best employer in our industry. We’ll ask you for your opinion and ensure we do our part to keep you developing and engaged as we grow our business. Working at Lineage is energizing and enjoyable. We value respect and care about our team members.
Lineage is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful harassment and retaliation. Lineage will not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability or any other protected status under federal, state and local law.
Benefits
Lineage provides safe, stable, reliable work environments, medical, dental, and basic life and disability insurance benefits, 401k retirement plan, paid time off, annual bonus eligibility, and a minimum of 7 holidays throughout the calendar year.
