AI Forward Deployed Engineer

Appunite is moving from selling engineering hours to owning outcomes, and AI is a big part of that shift. Clients come to us with a business problem and a hunch that AI can solve it. Someone has to sit with them, figure out what’s really worth building, prove it works and get the first version into production. That’s this role.

This is a hands-on engineering role, not a pre-sales one. You’ll run the technical side of discovery: workshops, stakeholder interviews and reviews of the client’s systems, data and integrations. You’ll build prototypes that answer the key questions before the client commits, then shape the solution, the estimate and the technical part of the offer. Once a project is signed, you’ll lead the first phase of delivery and hand it over to an engineer you’ve prepared to take it from there.

You’ll also build the practice. That means turning real projects into our AI discovery and delivery playbook and training engineers until they can run discovery on their own.

What we offer

• Salary: 28 500 - 35 000 PLN net/month B2B - depending on your experience
• Remote first approach
• Ownership of the service Appunite is building it’s core offer around
• AI coding tools as the default way of working, not an experiment

• 5+ years in software engineering, with regular, direct client work in recent years, including scoping or presales.
• You’ve designed and shipped at least one LLM-based system to production (RAG, agents, extraction or classification, assistants) used by real users. You know evals, cost, latency, guardrails and the typical failure modes.
• Production experience in Python or TypeScript with AI SDKs, and you’re happy to work in the client’s stack.
• You can work in Elixir codebases, at least with AI assistance.
• Claude Code, Cursor or similar tools are your everyday way of building software.
• You’ve technically led a client implementation, or a part of one, all the way to production.
• You still code every day and can build a prototype that tests a hypothesis in a day or two.
• You can turn a vague business problem into an architecture, a list of integrations and data sources, risks and a first estimate.
• You’re comfortable running workshops with non-technical stakeholders and writing short, clear recommendations for business decision-makers.
• You’ve onboarded, mentored or trained other engineers, or set team standards.
• You understand the commercial side of discovery: you can cut scope down to a first phase that’s doable and sellable, and you’ll tell a client when they shouldn’t build something.
• Native-level Polish and C1 English, spoken and written.

What you’ll do

• Lead the technical side of client discovery: workshops, interviews, analysis of systems, data and integrations, feasibility and risks.
• Build prototypes and PoCs, mostly LLM-based, that settle key questions before the client decides to go ahead.
• Co-create the discovery report, the technical part of the offer and the estimate, then present the solution to the client.
• Technically lead the first phase of delivery while preparing an engineer to take over.
• Build Appunite’s playbook for AI discovery and delivery based on real projects.
• Train engineers through shadowing until they can run technical discovery on their own.
• Run internal AI sessions and create technical materials that support sales.
• Take part in technical interviews for future Forward Deployed Engineers.

What does the recruitment process look like?

1. Video interview with our People Team.
2. Technical interview with an engineers.
3. Final check with Team Leader.
4. The decision, after which we can say “welcome on board”.