Provectus

Forward Deployed AI Architect (GenAI, AWS)

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Base Salary

$180k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Spend initial engagement weeks learning the customer’s business function and constraints before rebuilding it alongside the client and a Forward Deployed Executive.
  • Embed within customer teams, work autonomously on real operational problems, and own delivery from problem framing through production.
  • Deliver Cowork Activation, Agentic SDLC, and Blueprint Activations for financial services and healthcare customers.
  • Shape enterprise AI adoption from strategy through first deployment and help build tooling and frameworks for the AI delivery practice.
  • Build or own evaluation suites for nondeterministic GenAI systems and determine how system effectiveness should be measured.
  • Use Claude, Claude Code, and Cowork, including skills, workflows, MCP, integrations, connectors, and custom harnesses.
  • Engage credibly with senior business stakeholders and CTOs on redesign and scoping conversations.

Requirements

  • Typically 7+ years building software, including substantial production-code ownership, with continued hands-on engineering involvement.
  • Production experience shipping GenAI or LLM systems beyond demos and notebooks, including the operational challenges after prototyping.
  • Experience building or owning an evaluation suite for a nondeterministic system and explaining its measurements.
  • 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 operational ownership of systems inherited by others.
  • Presales experience and the ability to communicate with senior business and technical stakeholders.
  • Hands-on experience with Claude, Claude Code, and Cowork, including skills, workflows, MCP, integrations, connectors, and custom harnesses.
  • Preferred experience with Kubernetes or ECS, production CI/CD, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, open source contributions, or public writing on applied AI.
  • Comfort working autonomously in ambiguous engagements and rapidly understanding unfamiliar business functions.

Benefits

  • Full-time employment.
  • On-site visits to client facilities and weekly attendance at the NYC office.
  • Unlimited vacation policy.
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance.
  • 401(k) matching plan.
  • Base salary of $180k to $200k plus bonuses, with OTE up to $250k.
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About Provectus

201-500 employees

Provectus is an AI consultancy and solutions provider that designs and implements machine learning, data analytics, MLOps, and generative AI systems for enterprises in finance, insurance, healthcare, retail, media, and manufacturing. It sells consulting engagements and implementation services to help clients adopt AI and cloud platforms in production. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held.

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