Junior Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Salary: ₱20,000 – ₱25,000 per month

About the role

We’re looking for a proactive, energetic Junior Forward Deployed AI Engineer who is strong technically but also comfortable working directly with clients and stakeholders.

You’ll be expected to understand business problems, gather requirements, clarify what users actually need, and then help turn those requirements into working products and features.

This is not a role for someone who only wants to sit behind a screen and wait for tickets. We’re looking for someone who asks questions, follows up, identifies issues early and takes ownership.

Initial projects

Your first projects will include:

• Supporting a local employment agency to streamline operations and build new AI-powered platforms.

• Supporting a data-driven SaaS startup with application development, data workflows and AI-enabled features.

You’ll work directly with stakeholders, engineers and product leads.

What you’ll do

• Speak directly with stakeholders to understand business problems and operational processes.

• Gather, clarify and document requirements.

• Translate business requirements into technical tasks and working features.

• Ask the right questions when requirements are unclear or incomplete.

• Proactively identify problems, risks and opportunities for improvement.

• Build and maintain web applications using TypeScript, Next.js and React.

• Work with APIs, databases and third-party integrations.

• Contribute to our shared codebase through GitHub.

• Participate in pull requests, code reviews and CI/CD workflows.

• Test, debug and improve features based on user feedback.

• Communicate blockers early rather than waiting to be asked.

Required skills

Technical

• TypeScript

• Next.js

• React

• Good understanding of APIs and modern web application development.

• Comfortable using GitHub, branches and pull requests.

• Basic understanding of CI/CD and software deployment workflows.

Client & business skills

• Strong communication skills.

• Comfortable speaking directly with clients and stakeholders.

• Able to gather and clarify requirements.

• Able to understand a business process before jumping into development.

• Confident asking questions when something does not make sense.

• Highly proactive and willing to take ownership.

• Able to communicate progress and blockers clearly.

• Strong growth mindset and willingness to learn quickly.

Bonus skills

You do not need all of these, but exposure to any of the following is a strong advantage:

AI Engineering

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

• Embeddings and vector search

• pgvector

• MCP — Model Context Protocol

• Agentic architecture

• AI agents and tool calling

• LLM APIs

Python & Data Engineering

• Python

• Data engineering concepts

• ETL / ELT

• Data pipelines

• Working with structured and unstructured data

Infrastructure

• Exposure to Kubernetes (K8s) — you should at least understand what it is and why it is used.

• Basic understanding of cloud environments and deployment.

The type of person we’re looking for

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Proactive — you don’t wait to be told every next step.

• Curious — you want to understand why the client needs something, not just what to build.

• Client-facing — you are comfortable speaking with stakeholders and asking questions.

• Energetic — you enjoy working in a fast-moving environment.

• Accountable — if something is blocked or going wrong, you raise it early.

• Growth-focused — you actively learn from feedback and from the people around you.

Why join us

You’ll be joining a growing international technical center of excellence in BGC, working on real AI transformation projects rather than internal training exercises.

You’ll get:

• PHP 25,000 starting salary

• Fast salary and career progression for strong performers

• A modern, energetic office environment in BGC

• Access to an on-site gym

• Food provided on site

• Transport allowance

• Hands-on training and mentoring from experienced engineers and technology leads

• Regular code reviews and technical feedback

• Exposure to software engineering, AI engineering and data engineering

• The opportunity to work with modern AI tools, architectures and development practices

• Direct exposure to clients and real business problems

• The chance to make a visible, measurable impact on how businesses operate

• The opportunity to work at the frontier of AI-driven business transformation

• The chance to grow with a rapidly developing international technology team

We want people who are ambitious and want to develop quickly. If you perform well, take ownership and demonstrate strong technical and client-facing ability, there will be significant room to progress.

Applying

Please include your CV and, where possible, your GitHub profile, portfolio or examples of projects you have built.

We are more interested in your ability to learn, communicate, solve problems and take ownership than in having years of experience.