Provectus

Senior Forward Deployed AI Architect (GenAI, AWS)

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1 month ago
Washington, DC, USA or New York, NY, USASenior

Base Salary

$120k - $180k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Perform the customer’s operational role for two to four weeks to understand its constraints from the inside.
  • Reach working fluency in unfamiliar business domains and redesign functions from first principles with operators and executives.
  • Build and ship production GenAI systems, including LLM applications, agentic workflows, retrieval and structured-extraction pipelines, backend services, data pipelines, and AI-layer components.
  • Create evaluation harnesses and define measurable success criteria for non-deterministic systems before building features.
  • Write production code across the stack using tools suited to each customer’s needs.
  • Deploy containerized, observable, and maintainable systems on AWS or other cloud platforms as required.
  • Feed field learnings back into the company’s industry blueprints.
  • Drive customer adoption, shape commitments before delivery, and own outcomes tied to business-unit KPIs.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of software-building experience, including substantial production coding accountability.
  • Willingness to spend weeks performing a customer’s job before writing code.
  • Demonstrated ability to learn unfamiliar business domains quickly.
  • Production experience shipping GenAI or LLM systems and handling post-prototype operational challenges.
  • Experience building or owning evaluation suites for non-deterministic systems.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
  • Cloud-native AWS delivery experience with containers, Kubernetes or ECS, infrastructure as code, and operational ownership.
  • Ability to communicate credibly with business-unit leaders, CTOs, customer engineers, operators, and executives.
  • Solid AI/ML foundations and understanding of model failure modes.
  • Strong hands-on production experience with Claude Code and Cowork.
  • Fluent written and spoken English.
  • Preferred experience includes founding, CTO, or engineering leadership experience; depth in financial services, insurance, healthcare, or asset management; consulting or embedded delivery; data platforms; MLOps and classical ML; model fine-tuning or inference optimization; graph databases; infrastructure as code; and open-source contributions or public writing on applied AI.

Benefits

  • Remote-friendly culture.
  • B2B contract or full-time employment model.
  • Performance-based bonuses and strong earning potential.
  • Unlimited vacation policy.
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance.
  • 401(k) matching plan.
  • Opportunity to work on frontier AI delivery and help shape enterprise AI adoption.
  • Direct visibility to leadership and the opportunity to build AI delivery tooling and frameworks.
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