Kyndryl
Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Why it's interesting
The world's largest IT-infrastructure services firm — IBM's ~80,000-person spinoff — now wants 'the engineer customers ask for by name.' Multiple FDE reqs live in Dallas at up to $252K: the managed-services industry has officially discovered the deployment engineer.
The role
Forward Deployed AI Engineer at Kyndryl (spun out of IBM in 2021; the largest managed-infrastructure services provider). Lead Kyndryl's most complex AI engagements: embed with customers, design and implement enterprise-wide agentic AI at scale, own delivery end-to-end from scoping to production, and feed deployment learnings back into Kyndryl's core platforms. Dallas, TX. $120,000–$252,000 employer-provided. A parallel Data Engineer FDE and Fullstack FDE are also live. Verified on Kyndryl's Workday careers site.
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