7 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$136k - $216k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the full client relationship from discovery through close.
- Make architecture and implementation decisions suited to client environments and constraints.
- Run discovery, architecture reviews, and stakeholder interviews independently.
- Translate ambiguous client problems into scoped, deliverable work.
- Manage scope creep and surface delivery risks before they become problems.
- Identify and surface account expansion opportunities.
- Deliver documented, runnable, maintainable software or automations that continue working after the engagement.
- Contribute reusable patterns, templates, and components to the practice after each engagement.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of engineering or technical delivery experience, including meaningful embedded or client-facing experience.
- Proven ability to independently own a client relationship from kickoff through close.
- Hands-on depth in LLM application development, cloud-native architecture, backend systems at scale, or enterprise business automation.
- Demonstrated ability to make independent technical decisions and manage delivery quality in client environments.
- Strong communication skills with both engineers and VP-level leaders.
- Ability to work effectively amid ambiguity and deliver value before requirements are fully defined.
- Preferred experience building production AI systems such as RAG pipelines, agents, fine-tuned models, or LLM-native applications.
- Preferred hands-on experience with Claude, AWS Bedrock, or equivalent, including model parameters, prompt architecture, and tool use.
- Preferred background in consulting, systems integration, professional services, enterprise SaaS implementation, or management consulting.
- Familiarity with SOW-based delivery and scope management is preferred.
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, or equivalent certification is preferred.
- Operational experience designing AI enablement programs for non-technical audiences is preferred.
- Hands-on experience with Zapier, Power Automate, Airtable, or similar tools is preferred.
- Familiarity with Salesforce, Workday, or ServiceNow is preferred.
- Experience working cross-functionally across Finance, Legal, and Operations is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical insurance for employees and eligible dependents.
- 401(k) plan with company match up to 4% and immediate vesting.
- Competitive phantom equity.
- Company-issued laptop.
- Dental and vision insurance.
- Term disability and term life insurance.
- Flexible Spending Account.
- Equipment and office stipend.
- Annual learning and development stipend.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- 10 paid holidays.
- Fully remote work arrangement.
- The role may require up to 50% travel depending on business needs.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Caylent
Caylent provides cloud and AI consulting and managed services for organizations building on AWS, including migration, cloud-native application development, data and analytics, DevOps, and security. It operates as a professional services and managed services provider, with specialized work in generative and agentic AI and the Anthropic Claude ecosystem. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Irvine, California, Caylent is privately held and backed by Gryphon Investors.