Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Remote)

Job Description: Forward Deployed AI Engineer Intelligent Document Processing and Enterprise Data Matching

Applied AI (NLP Vision & Edge)
Summary of the Requirement
Strong Eastern/Central Time overlap is required for daily embedded co-build (EBSCO hubs - Ipswich MA & Birmingham AL).
Engagement shape: Time-boxed engagements (typ. 4-6 weeks build hand-off overlap) 2-3 projects running concurrently.
Seniority: Mid-to-senior applied engineers who can build production-quality work and teach it to an owner in parallel.

AI-Driven Invoice Management (AP/AR) - invoice intake and extraction then validation/matching of line items against EBSCOs Invoice/Product Authority with human-in-the-loop confirmation.
Federal Bids / Title Authority matching - read an Excel bid/renewal input fuzzy-match each line against Product Authority (PA within PAVA on the ESOS platform) and auto-populate missing fields (ISSN product keys price offerings).
PAVA price-request automation - the inbound return (publisher price sheet match to authority enrich rates) today manual.
Build the underlying reusable match-and-enrich against Product Authority service that all three share.

What youll do
Co-design and build document-ingestion entity-matching enrichment pipelines against a named owner and workflow.
Integrate with enterprise authorities via API event streams and extract tables; design human-in the-loop review and exception handling.
Instrument match quality (match rate precision manual-touch reduction error rate) so results are measurable.
Commit all artifacts to EBSCO repos as you go and hand off against a defined independent operation bar.

Required Skills
Intelligent Document Processing - document/structured extraction (OCR and LLM-based) handling messy real-world inputs (Excel PDF).
Entity resolution / fuzzy matching / record linkage against reference data; data-quality and reconciliation experience.
Strong Python and SQL; data pipelines; REST/API and event-stream integration; cloud (AWS preferred).
Human-in-the-loop workflow design; ability to embed with finance/ops owners and transfer the capability.

Preferred Skills
Prior Intelligent Automation / IDP delivery in finance or operations (AP/AR subscriptions contracts).
LLM-assisted extraction and validation; familiarity with master-data / authority systems and enterprise integration.