Provectus

Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer (GenAI, AWS)

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21 hours ago

Base Salary

$180k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed with customer teams to understand business functions, constraints, and operational processes before designing solutions.
  • Rebuild business functions from first principles alongside customers and a Forward Deployed Executive, then implement the resulting systems.
  • Ship production GenAI/LLM systems and deliver Cowork Activation, Agentic SDLC, and Blueprint Activation engagements.
  • Own engagements autonomously from problem framing through production deployment and evaluate whether systems work using appropriate measurements.
  • Help enterprise customers adopt AI from strategy through first deployment and contribute tooling and frameworks to the AI delivery practice.
  • Participate in pre-sales conversations, scoping discussions, and redesign conversations with senior business and technical stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Typically 7+ years of software development experience, with substantial accountability for production code and continued hands-on engineering.
  • Ability to learn unfamiliar business functions quickly and spend meaningful time understanding a customer’s work before coding.
  • Production experience shipping GenAI/LLM systems, including handling post-prototype operational challenges.
  • Experience building or owning evaluation suites for non-deterministic systems and explaining evaluation measurements.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
  • Cloud-native AWS delivery experience, including operational ownership of systems inherited by others; GCP or Azure experience is a plus.
  • Pre-sales experience and credibility with senior business and technical stakeholders.
  • Hands-on experience with Claude, Claude Code, and Cowork, including skills, workflows, MCP, integrations, connectors, or custom harnesses.
  • Preferred experience with Kubernetes or ECS, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, open-source contributions, or public writing on applied AI.

Benefits

  • Full-time employment.
  • On-site visits to client facilities and the NYC office once per week.
  • Unlimited vacation policy.
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance.
  • 401(k) matching plan.
  • Base salary of $180k–$200k plus bonuses, with OTE up to $250k.
  • No visa sponsorship.
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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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