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Job Description:
Baker Tilly is seeking a
Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join the founding team of the firm's AI Product Group (APG) Agent Factory, responsible for designing, developing, and deploying AI-powered applications and intelligent agentic workflows across Tax, Assurance, and Advisory. This hands-on, full-stack engineering role focuses on building production-ready AI solutions that combine advanced AI capabilities with intuitive user experiences and practical business workflows. Working directly with firm practitioners and subject matter experts, this individual will translate complex business processes into scalable AI-enabled solutions, develop applications that support professional review and decision-making, and deliver innovative technology that drives measurable business value.
As an early member of the AI Product Group, this individual will collaborate closely with product, design, data, platform engineering, and globally distributed technical teams to develop and deliver AI solutions from initial concept through production deployment. The role emphasizes strong software engineering fundamentals, evaluation-driven development, hands-on execution, and direct collaboration with business stakeholders. The ideal candidate is a highly capable, adaptable engineer with demonstrated experience delivering full-stack applications, deploying LLM-powered features to real users, and learning emerging technologies quickly.
Responsibilities- Design and Develop AI-Powered Solutions: Build, implement, and maintain AI agents and multi-step workflows, including task decomposition, orchestration, context and memory management, tool integration, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and failure handling.
- Deliver Full-Stack Applications: Develop production-quality applications, backend services, APIs, data models, dashboards, conversational interfaces, and user-facing workflows that enable practitioners to interact effectively with AI-powered solutions.
- Translate Business Needs into Technical Solutions: Collaborate directly with Tax, Assurance, and Advisory professionals and subject matter experts to understand business processes, identify opportunities for automation, and translate professional expertise into actionable requirements and working software.
- Drive Evaluation-Based Development: Establish measurable hypotheses, testing criteria, evaluation framew