Forward Deployed Engineer – AI Solutions

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Forward Deployed Engineer building AI agents and API integrations for Nielsen Gracenote’s entertainment metadata platform. Leading technical pre-sales, proofs of concept, and customer implementations.

Responsibilities:

  • Partner with Sales to apply Gracenote’s go-to-market strategy and demonstrate AI solutions to customer stakeholders
  • Lead discovery sessions, understand customer use cases and AI-based architectures, and identify value propositions for Gracenote metadata
  • Develop and run proofs of concept
  • Own and secure customer engagement and adoption through contract signature
  • Design, build, and maintain focused AI agents demonstrating Gracenote Video MCP Server capabilities
  • Translate entertainment workflows such as conversational search, catalog enrichment, and personalized recommendations into prototypes
  • Deploy agents on frameworks such as Google or AWS frameworks
  • Analyze customer environments and recommend integration patterns for AI workflows
  • Test and validate new MCP tools and features as “Customer Zero”
  • Guide developers through technical adoption with code-level guidance and integration documentation
  • Help customers use JSON-RPC 2.0 for API/server interaction
  • Represent customer needs in product roadmaps and translate requirements into product inquiries and technical documentation
  • Establish implementation SLAs and best practices for Tier 1 and Tier 2 global accounts

Requirements:

  • Solid grasp of agent creation and agentic deployment frameworks and MCP tooling
  • Understanding of LLM use of MCP primitives: Tools, Resources, and Prompts
  • Knowledge of JSON-RPC 2.0
  • Practical experience with AWS Cognito for identity management, user authentication, and secure API access control
  • Experience designing, deploying, or observing multi-step AI agents using Google ADK, AWS Bedrock Agents, LangChain, or LlamaIndex preferred
  • Understanding of MCP tool chaining, system prompt engineering, function calling across Gemini, Claude, and GPT, and step-level tracing or response evaluation
  • Ability to navigate enterprise security requirements including OAuth/OIDC and data privacy
  • Strong experience in Python or TypeScript/Node.js
  • Experience connecting MCP clients and servers to managed enterprise foundation models via AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI / Foundry, etc.
  • Familiarity with large-scale structured datasets, content discovery architectures, and search and recommendation engine mechanics
  • Familiarity with the CTV/Streaming and entertainment ecosystem welcome but not required
  • Proven customer interaction, consultative leadership, and stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to travel globally to customer sites up to 40% of the time

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive health and wellness plans
  • 401(k) with a Nielsen company match
  • Generous paid time off policy
  • Company-provided vehicle (depending on the role)
  • Discretionary incentive/bonus eligibility (depending on the role)
  • Potential eligibility for bonuses, equity, or other incentives