CareerPlan

Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer (GenAI, AWS)

New JerseyFull-time2026-10-15 → 2026-11-11

Core

Senior 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

Senior IC GenAI/LLM engineer (embedded delivery)

Builds

Production GenAI systems, agentic workflows, and retrieval/extraction pipelines for Financial Services, Insurance, and Healthcare

Domain

Applied AI, GenAI, AWS Cloud, Financial Services, Healthcare

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

GenAI/LLM system production experience, AWS cloud-native delivery, Python/TypeScript, evaluation suite design, domain learning speed, stakeholder credibility, 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)

Technologies

AWS, Kubernetes/ECS, Python, TypeScript, Claude Code, Cowork, Neo4j, AWS Neptune, PyTorch, SageMaker, MLflow, Terraform, AWS CDK

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

Senior, hands-on IC