Provectus

Principal Forward Deployed AI Engineer (GenAI, AWS)

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Responsibilities

  • Perform the customer’s operational job for two to four weeks to understand its constraints and workflows firsthand.
  • Become fluent in unfamiliar business domains and redesign functions from first principles with operators and Forward Deployed Executives.
  • Build and ship production GenAI systems, including LLM applications, agentic workflows, retrieval and structured-extraction pipelines, backend services, data pipelines, and AI layers.
  • Create evaluation harnesses, define measurable success criteria, instrument systems, and use evaluations to guide product design.
  • Write production code across the stack, primarily using Python and TypeScript.
  • Deploy containerized, observable, and maintainable systems to AWS or other customer-required cloud environments.
  • Feed lessons from customer engagements back into the company’s reusable industry blueprints.
  • Drive adoption, shape commitments before delivery, and own outcomes tied to business-unit KPIs.
  • Communicate credibly with customer operators, engineers, executives, CTOs, and business-unit leaders.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software-building experience, including substantial accountability for production code.
  • Current hands-on engineering ability and willingness to remain in an individual-contributor coding role.
  • Willingness to spend weeks performing an operator’s job before writing code.
  • Ability to quickly learn unfamiliar business domains and challenge established processes constructively.
  • Production experience shipping GenAI or LLM systems beyond demos and notebooks.
  • Experience building or owning evaluation suites for non-deterministic systems.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to become productive in unfamiliar codebases or languages.
  • Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
  • Cloud-native delivery experience on AWS, including containers, Kubernetes or ECS, infrastructure as code, and operational ownership.
  • Ability to work credibly with senior business and technical stakeholders in redesign and scoping conversations.
  • Strong ownership, comfort with ambiguity, and ability to work autonomously.
  • Solid AI/ML foundations and ability to reason about model failure modes.
  • Strong hands-on production experience with Claude Code and Cowork.
  • Fluent written and spoken English.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience as a founder, CTO, or engineering leader; depth in financial services, insurance, healthcare, or asset management; consulting or embedded customer delivery experience; data-platform expertise; MLOps and classical ML experience; fine-tuning or inference optimization experience; graph-database experience; infrastructure-as-code depth; and open-source contributions or public writing on applied AI.

Benefits

  • Frontier delivery work across Cowork Activation, Agentic SDLC, and Blueprint Activations in financial services and healthcare.
  • Opportunity to shape enterprise AI adoption from strategy through first deployment.
  • Work in small, senior teams alongside Principal Architects and Forward Deployed Engineers.
  • Opportunity to build AI delivery tooling and frameworks rather than only use them.
  • Remote-friendly culture.
  • Hiring process includes an introductory conversation, two live engineering sessions, a redesign session, and a team and practice conversation.
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