Forward Deployed Engineer (Barcelona)

The artificial intelligence landscape is moving at unprecedented speed, and our clients need solutions built at the same pace. As a Forward Deployed Engineer within TransPerfect's Artificial Intelligence team, you will be customer-embedded, i.e. working directly with clients to understand their toughest problems, rapidly prototype AI-powered solutions, and build production systems that deliver real business value.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Python with experience building production applications, APIs, and full-stack systems
• Hands-on expertise with modern AI platforms like OpenAI, Claude, Google, or Microsoft, and ability to rapidly integrate them into customer solutions
• Experience with LLM application frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, or LangGraph for building chatbots, agents, RAG systems, and custom workflows
• Strong full-stack development skills with modern web frameworks like React, Next.js, Vue.js, FastAPI, or Flask to build complete customer-facing applications
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical thinking with a bias toward action, prioritizing working solutions over perfect architectures
• Outstanding communication skills for customer engagement, technical discovery, stakeholder presentations, and cross-functional collaboration
• Ability to work independently in customer environments, taking ownership of complex problems and driving them to resolution
• Experience building custom data pipelines, integrations, and APIs
• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid iteration of dynamic customer environments with evolving requirements
• Strong technical troubleshooting skills and ability to debug production issues under pressure as the owner
• Customer-focused mindset with ability to build trust, translate business needs into technical solutions, and guide non-technical stakeholders