Forward Deployed Engineer

Overview

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Forward Deplyed Engineer

About Us

At Lewis Energy Group, we are a vertically integrated exploration and production (E&P) company and a leading natural gas producer in South Texas and across the nation. With operations in South Texas and Mexico, we take pride in our long-standing commitment to excellence, innovation, and community engagement.

What sets us apart is our family-oriented work culture, built over decades of dedication and teamwork. This culture drives the passion we bring to our work and the positive impact we strive to make in the communities where we operate.

The Forward Deployed Engineer will Embed with business and operating teams to identify high-value opportunities to improve how work is performed and designs, builds, deploys, and supports secure, production-ready AI solutions, workflow automations, integrations, and decision-support tools. Owns delivery from workflow discovery through production adoption and measurable business results while developing reusable technical patterns and strengthening organizational AI capability.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Works with business users and subject-matter experts to understand workflows, requirements, decision points, pain points, systems, and data dependencies.
• Designs, develops, tests, deploys, and troubleshoots AI agents, copilots, workflow automations, integrations, lightweight applications, and decision-support tools.
• Develops and maintains code, prompts, configurations, connectors, tests, documentation, and deployment artifacts.
• Coordinates with business owners, the AI Architect, IT, Security, Legal, and data owners to meet architecture, identity, access, data-handling, security, and responsible-use requirements.
•  Evaluates and prioritizes opportunities based on business value, feasibility, data readiness, risk, and time-to-value.
• Defines and executes evaluations for solution quality, grounding, reliability, safety, and user experience.
• Reviews adoption, production performance, user feedback, incidents, and improvement opportunities for deployed solutions.
• Delivers training, office hours, demonstrations, playbooks, and role-based adoption support.
•  Travels to field offices or operating locations for discovery, implementation, training, or support.
• Captures reusable code, connectors, patterns, documentation, and deployment pipelines for use across teams.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university
• Minimum three years of related experience and/or training

Work Location: Onsite - Candidates must be able to work full-time from our San Antonio office.

Computer Skills

Advanced proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as:

• Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or C#; APIs; Git; testing; CI/CD; workflow automation; large language models; RAG; AI agents; tool integration; and cloud or enterprise application platforms.

• Azure, Fabric, Power Platform, Copilot Studio, and Microsoft Graph experience preferred.

Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations

• Relevant cloud, Azure, Power Platform, Fabric, security, or software-development certifications preferred.
• A valid driver's license may be required for site travel.

Other Skills and Qualifications

• Consultative discovery, software engineering, process analysis, requirements definition, solution design, testing, technical documentation, stakeholder management, facilitation, training, change adoption, and production troubleshooting.

• Ability to work with confidential and company-sensitive information, comply with information-security and responsible-AI requirements, manage multiple engagements, work independently in unfamiliar business areas, and travel periodically to field or operating locations.

Your Benefits

Lewis Energy Group appreciates the hard work and dedication you bring to our team every day. To do our part, we are committed to keeping your benefits affordable and beneficial for you and your eligible family members. Lewis Energy Group strives to provide benefits that meet your needs, are easy to understand and use, and provide excellent value for affordable costs.

• Insurance: Medical/Dental/Vision/ Basic Life and AD&D/and other benefit options to meet your personal needs
• Retirement: 401K with immediate matching contribution
• Annual Discretionary Bonus
• Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – Free, confidential support for you and your dependents
• Wellness & Company Events throughout the year

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lewis Energy Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.