Forward Deployed AI Engineer (USA Based) at NielsenIQ — NeverHard

Job Description About the role The Forward Deployed AI Engineer is the builder on the team. You operate like an early-stage startup CTO inside a Fortune 500 client: deep, fast, and comfortable with ambiguity. You write production-grade code, ship a working v0 in weeks — not quarters — and measure your own success by movement in the client's numbers, not code shipped. What you'll do Build data pipelines joining NIQ's consumer and retail data with the client's own sales, inventory, and margin data Design and ship AI decision applications: recommendation workflows, LLM-agent-driven analysis, approval flows with guardrails, full auditability Navigate broken, incomplete enterprise data environments — and ship anyway Work in a 2–3 person deployment team with a data scientist and an AI Deployment Architect, dedicated to one client Surface reusable patterns from each deployment back into NIQ's product platform