Senior AI Engineer II - Forward Deployment - Enterprise AI Platforms
American ExpressResponsibilities
- Partner with business units, product teams, and engineering organizations to identify and reframe high-value opportunities.
- Translate business challenges into clear value propositions and build working AI solutions.
- Take opportunities from discovery and demonstration through proof of value, production scaling, adoption, and transition to long-term ownership.
- Build and deploy reliable, secure, scalable, and responsible software alongside engineers.
- Analyze processes as systems and identify technical, operational, and organizational improvements.
- Define longer-term direction while sequencing practical near-term solutions tied to measurable outcomes.
- Engage stakeholders across levels of seniority and technical familiarity while influencing without direct authority.
Requirements
- Hands-on software engineering experience with the ability to understand systems end to end and turn direction into working software.
- Ability to work deeply with users and stakeholders and translate business challenges into technical solutions.
- Experience or background in one or more of mobile, web, backend, distributed systems, or workflow platforms.
- Ability to build solutions using Generative AI, agentic systems, and intelligent automation.
- Ability to address enterprise requirements for security, reliability, responsible AI, production adoption, and measurable outcomes.
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries and bonus incentives.
- 6% company match on the retirement savings plan.
- Free financial coaching and financial well-being support.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits.
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite, or virtual arrangements depending on the role and business need.
- 20+ weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, including pregnancy, adoption, or surrogacy.
- Access to global onsite wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors, depending on location.
- Free confidential counseling through the Healthy Minds program.
- Career development and training opportunities.
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About American Express
At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly striving to uphold our powerful backing promise to our customers and each other every day. These beliefs have been our North Star for 170 years as our business transformed – from helping evacuate travelers during World Wars, to ensuring the safety of our customers’ funds during the Great Depression in the U.S., to creating the Shop Small® movement to help small businesses recover from the Financial Crisis, to providing aid to communities impacted by many natural disasters and so much more. For generations, the key to our success has been the determination and resilience of our American Express colleagues. Now, as a globally integrated payments company, we work together to provide customers with access to products, insights and world-class experiences that enrich lives and build business success. Join us and let’s lead the way together. Learn more about us at: https://www.americanexpress.com/careers https://www.americanexpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/AmericanExpressUS https://www.instagram.com/americanexpress/ https://twitter.com/americanexpress https://www.youtube.com/user/AmericanExpress See our community guidelines at: https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/company/community-guidelines/ If you have a customer service issue or question, please visit www.americanexpress.com/contactus