84.51°
Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (P4570)
Cincinnati, OH; Chicago, IL · Senior
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About the role
- 84.51° is a retail data science, insights and media company.
- The AI SDLC team provides access to Agentic Coding harnesses and agentic coding best practices in collaboration with Security, functional SDLC advisors, and development teams across the enterprise.
Responsibilities
- Regularly document and present learnings gleaned from embedded work or experiments to the AI Enablement organization
- Closely monitor and maintain our internal Plugin Marketplaces or similar to enhance usability of offerings
- Ensure we hit SLAs and lead incident management procedures
- Participate routinely in team on-call rotation and customer support during business hours
Requirements
- 4-year degree in a technology related discipline (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, etc.) or equivalent work experience
- 3+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevEx, or related roles
- Familiarity with AI-related concepts such as LLMs, Agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Nice to have
- Strong technical writing, documentation, or functional research skills
- Experience working with IAC systems, eg.
- Terraform/Spacelift, Kubernetes, Helm, etc.
- 5+ years of experience producing high-quality software on Agile development teams. (Python and Java preferred)
- 5+ years of experience with public cloud technologies (Azure preferred)
Compensation
- $125,000 - $207,000 USD
- Base Pay Range
Benefits
- Medical: with competitive plan designs and support for self-care, wellness and mental health.
- with in-network and out-of-network benefit.
- Health Savings Account with matching contribution (requires participation in qualifying medical plan).
- Paid time off with flexibility to meet your life needs, including 5 weeks of vacation time, 7 health and wellness days, 3 floating holidays, as well as 6 company-paid holidays per year.
- Paid leave for maternity, paternity and family care instances.
Company info
- We are seeking a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join our AI Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) team and enable evolution of software development using AI tooling across Kroger and 84.51˚.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United Stated and with the Kroger Family of Companies (i.e. H1-B visa, F-1
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