Provectus

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (GenAI, AWS)

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3 days ago
USA (city not specified) or San Francisco, CA, USASenior

Base Salary

$180k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed with customer teams to understand business functions and constraints before designing and building solutions.
  • Deliver production GenAI systems across Cowork Activation, Agentic SDLC, and Blueprint Activations for financial services and healthcare customers.
  • Own engagements autonomously from problem framing through production deployment.
  • Build and maintain evaluation suites for nondeterministic systems and explain evaluation methodology.
  • Help enterprise customers adopt AI from strategy through initial deployment.
  • Contribute to tooling, frameworks, and reusable industry Blueprints for the AI delivery practice.
  • Communicate credibly with senior business and technical stakeholders during redesign and scoping discussions.

Requirements

  • Typically 7+ years of software-building experience, including substantial accountability for production code.
  • Current hands-on software engineering ability and comfort becoming productive in unfamiliar codebases or languages.
  • Production experience shipping GenAI or LLM systems beyond prototypes and notebooks.
  • Experience building or owning an evaluation suite for a nondeterministic system.
  • Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
  • Cloud-native delivery experience on AWS, including operational ownership of inherited systems.
  • Presales experience and the ability to work with senior business and technical stakeholders.
  • Hands-on experience with Claude, Claude Code, Cowork, skills, workflows, MCP, integrations, connectors, and custom harnesses.
  • Preferred experience with GCP or Azure, Kubernetes or ECS, CI/CD, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, open-source contributions, or public writing on applied AI.

Benefits

  • Full-time employment.
  • On-site visits to client facilities and attendance at the New York City office once per week.
  • Unlimited vacation policy.
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance.
  • 401(k) matching plan.
  • Base salary of $180,000 to $250,000 plus bonuses, with OTE up to $300,000.
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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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