7 days ago
USA (city not specified)Senior
Base Salary
$136k - $216k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the full client relationship from discovery through close.
- Make architecture and build decisions suited to each client's environment and constraints.
- Independently run discovery, architecture reviews, and stakeholder interviews.
- Translate ambiguous problems into scoped, deliverable work and manage scope creep and delivery risks.
- Identify expansion opportunities within client engagements.
- Deliver documented, runnable, and maintainable software or automations that continue working after the engagement.
- Contribute reusable patterns, templates, and components to the practice after each engagement.
Requirements
- Require 5+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience, including meaningful embedded or client-facing experience.
- Require proven solo account delivery from kickoff through close without supervision.
- Require hands-on depth in LLM application development, cloud-native architecture, backend systems at scale, or enterprise business automation.
- Require independent technical decision-making and delivery-quality management in client environments.
- Require strong communication with engineers and VP-level leaders and the ability to operate effectively amid ambiguity.
- Prefer experience building production AI systems such as RAG pipelines, agents, fine-tuned models, or LLM-native applications.
- Prefer hands-on experience with Claude, AWS Bedrock, or equivalent, including model parameters, prompt architecture, and tool use.
- Prefer consulting, systems integration, professional services, SOW-based delivery, and scope-management experience.
- Prefer AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, or equivalent certification.
- For operational engagements, prefer management consulting, enterprise SaaS implementation, business-function expertise, AI enablement programs, and tools such as Zapier, Power Automate, Airtable, Salesforce, Workday, or ServiceNow.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.
- 401(k) plan with company match up to 4% and immediate vesting.
- Competitive phantom equity, company-issued laptop, equipment and office stipend, and annual learning and development stipend.
- Term disability and life insurance, flexible spending account, unlimited paid time off, and 10 paid holidays.
- Position is onsite in New York City or San Francisco and may require up to 50% travel depending on business needs.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Caylent
Caylent provides cloud and AI consulting and managed services for organizations building on AWS, including migration, cloud-native application development, data and analytics, DevOps, and security. It operates as a professional services and managed services provider, with specialized work in generative and agentic AI and the Anthropic Claude ecosystem. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Irvine, California, Caylent is privately held and backed by Gryphon Investors.