Provectus

Senior Forward Deployed AI Architect (GenAI, AWS)

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Base Salary

$180k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed with customer teams to understand operational constraints and rebuild business functions from first principles.
  • Design, build, evaluate, and deploy production GenAI/LLM systems for enterprise customers.
  • Deliver Cowork Activation, Agentic SDLC, and Blueprint Activations in financial services and healthcare.
  • Own engagements autonomously from problem framing through production deployment.
  • Help shape enterprise AI adoption strategies and develop tooling and frameworks for the AI delivery practice.
  • Communicate credibly with senior business and technical stakeholders, including during redesign and scoping conversations.
  • Feed field learnings back into Provectus industry Blueprints.

Requirements

  • Typically 7+ years of software-building experience, including substantial accountability for production code.
  • Hands-on experience shipping GenAI/LLM systems to production rather than only prototypes or notebooks.
  • Experience building or owning an evaluation suite for a nondeterministic system and explaining its measurements.
  • Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript, with strong general engineering fundamentals and the ability to work in unfamiliar codebases or languages.
  • Cloud-native delivery experience on AWS; GCP or Azure experience is a plus.
  • Pre-sales experience and the ability to engage senior business and technical stakeholders.
  • Hands-on experience with Claude, Claude Code, and Cowork, including skills, workflows, MCP, integrations, connectors, or custom harnesses.
  • Willingness to understand unfamiliar business functions and work autonomously amid ambiguity.
  • Experience with Kubernetes or ECS, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform is a plus.
  • Open-source contributions or public writing on applied AI is a plus.

Benefits

  • Full-time employment.
  • Base salary of $180k–$200k plus bonuses, with OTE up to $250k.
  • On-site visits to client facilities and attendance at the NYC office once per week.
  • Unlimited vacation policy.
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance.
  • 401(k) matching plan.
  • Opportunities for Claude certification, conference talks, open-source contributions, and published work under the employee’s name.
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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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