Forward Deployed AI Engineer/Data Scientist

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Five9

United States (Remote)

Hybrid

Posted March 28, 2026

Job Description

Join us in bringing joy to customer experience. Five9 is a leading provider of cloud contact center software, bringing the power of cloud innovation to customers worldwide.

Living our values everyday results in our team-first culture and enables us to innovate, grow, and thrive while enjoying the journey together. We celebrate diversity and foster an inclusive environment, empowering our employees to be their authentic selves.

We're looking for a forward deployed AI engineer to join our Engineering team at Five9. You'll work on natural language processing (NLP) projects, helping build and improve user-facing AI chatbots and virtual agents.

What You'll Do:

Help build and improve AI chatbots by training them with real conversation data
Clean and organize text data to make better machine learning models
Test how well our virtual agents are performing and find ways to improve them
Work alongside experienced consultants, developers, and conversation designers
Work with customers to understand requirements, pain points and clearly communicate progress and roadbloacks
Stay curious about new AI and NLP techniques

What We're Looking For:

NLP: Understanding of how computers process language, with experience building AI agents, text classification models or extracting key information from text
Machine Learning fundamentals: Familiarity with common algorithms like decision trees, regression, or clustering - and knowing when to use each one
Statistics: Understanding of A/B testing, statistical significance, and how to evaluate model performance
Problem-solving mindset: Ability to ask good questions and understand what customers actually need

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Linguistics, Engineering, or related field
3+ years of experience with Conversational AI system and Python programming
Experience with chatbot/AI agent platforms, prompt engineering and LLMs
Familiarity with python and data science/ML libraries
Can-do/figure-it-out attitude and willingness to work in a customer-facing role
Preferred: Master’s degree
Preferred: experience in a customer-facing role

Work Location: This role is fully remote for candidates who reside outside the 50 mile radius of our San Ramon office. For candidates who reside within 50 miles of our San Ramon location, this role is Hybrid and would require 3 days a week (M, W, TH) in our San Ramon office.

As part of our continued commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, Five9 supports pay transparency during the entire recruitment process. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate including, but not limited to: skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the job across the United States. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation package during your hiring process.

Additionally, the total compensation package for this position may also include an annual performance bonus, stock, and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.

Our total reward package also includes:

Health, dental, and vision coverage, beginning on the first day of employment. Five9 covers 100% of the employee portion of the health, dental and vision coverage and shares a high portion of the dependent cost. We also offer Short & Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Insurance, and a 401k saving plan with employer matching.
Access to an innovative mental health supp

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