Principal Forward Deployed AI Engineer (GenAI, AWS)
Core
Principal Forward Deployed AI Engineer who embeds in client operations to learn the operator's job, then rebuilds business functions using GenAI/LLM systems on AWS.
Role type
Principal Forward Deployed AI Engineer (GenAI, AWS)
Builds
Production GenAI systems, agentic workflows, retrieval pipelines, and data services for Financial Services, Insurance, and Healthcare.
Domain
Applied AI, GenAI, AWS Cloud, Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
GenAI/LLM production experience, AWS cloud-native delivery, Python/TypeScript, evaluation suite design, domain learning speed, stakeholder credibility, autonomous ownership, AI/ML foundations, Claude Code/Cowork proficiency
Preferred skills
Founder/CTO background, industry blueprint depth (finance/healthcare), consulting experience, data platform depth, MLOps, fine-tuning/distillation, graph databases, IaC (CDK/Terraform)
Responsibilities
Do the operator's job for 2-4 weeks to learn constraints from inside, redesign functions from first principles with operators and executives, ship production GenAI systems into customer environments, build evaluation harnesses before features, write production code across backend/data/AI layers, drive adoption and measure against business KPIs
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with leadership experience
