Provectus

Senior Forward Deployed AI Architect (GenAI, AWS)

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15 days ago

Responsibilities

  • Perform the customer’s operational job 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 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.
  • Build evaluation harnesses, define success metrics, instrument systems, and use evaluations to guide product and engineering decisions.
  • Write production code across the stack, primarily using Python and TypeScript.
  • Deploy maintainable, observable, containerized systems to AWS or other customer-required cloud environments.
  • Feed lessons from customer engagements back into Provectus blueprints and delivery tooling.
  • Drive customer adoption, challenge assumptions with stakeholders, and own work measured against business-unit KPIs.

Requirements

  • 8+ years building software, including substantial production-code ownership and current hands-on engineering.
  • Willingness to spend weeks performing an operator’s job before writing code.
  • Ability to quickly learn unfamiliar business domains and communicate credibly with senior stakeholders.
  • Experience shipping GenAI or LLM systems to production 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, CI/CD, and production operations.
  • Solid AI/ML foundations and the ability to reason about model failure modes.
  • Strong hands-on production experience with Claude Code and Cowork.
  • Fluent written and spoken English.
  • Preferred experience includes founding or leading engineering organizations before returning to individual contribution, financial services or healthcare domain depth, consulting or embedded delivery, data platforms, MLOps, classical ML, fine-tuning, inference optimization, graph databases, infrastructure as code, open-source contributions, or public applied-AI writing.

Benefits

  • Remote-friendly culture.
  • B2B contract or full-time 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 across Financial Services and Healthcare with direct leadership visibility.
  • Hiring process includes an introductory conversation, two live engineering sessions, a redesign session, and a team and practice conversation.
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