Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer (GenAI, AWS)
Provectus
About the role
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About the role:
At Provectus, you don’t prototype in a sandbox and hand a client a slide deck. You embed inside a bank, an insurer, or a health system, learn the work, and ship a Claude + AWS system into their real, regulated production — then you watch the business number move. We’re an Anthropic and AWS Partner with 150+ certified architects. That means the newest models, real budgets, and problems that matter — without the layers, politics, and years-to-impact of a hundred-thousand-person firm. 350+ builders, 100+ customers in production, founder-led since 2010, offices across North America, LATAM, and EMEA.
Why Provectus
Frontier access — Anthropic Preferred Partner: newest Claude models, real budgets, real problems.
Real tasks (not scope), real deployment. You go where the operating problem is and ship production code to real users, not slide decks that sit in a drive.
Embedded, not engaged. You are part of the customer’s team and inside their process — not a vendor running a project alongside it. Embedded is not staff-augmented.
Autonomous. You own the work from framing through to production, visible to clients and founders. You own the method; nobody hands you a ticket.
Your experience stays portable. Every engagement is a new problem, often in a new industry, so your skills compound instead of narrowing to one product. No legacy-maintenance grind, not a single stack.
Craft & growth — build beside senior FDEs on a Claude-certified team; a real platform (talks, OSS) to grow your name.
We give you a stage: Claude certification, conference talks, open-source contributions, published work under your own name.
Requirements:
Typically 7+ years building software, a substantial share of it writing production code you were accountable for. You are hands-on today and intend to stay that way.
Genuinely willing to spend time understanding someone else’s job before writing code; demonstrated ability to become conversant in an unfamiliar business function quickly.
Shipped GenAI/LLM systems to production — not demos, not notebooks. You’ve handled the parts that get hard after the prototype works.
You evaluate. You have built or owned an eval suite for a non-deterministic system, and you can explain what you measured and why.
Strong engineering fundamentals — dropped into an unfamiliar codebase or language, you’re productive. Python and/or TypeScript proficiency; depth matters more than stack.
Cloud-native delivery on AWS (GCP/Azure a plus), including the operational reality of a system someone else inherits.
Pre-sales experience. Credible with senior stakeholders — you can hold a redesign conversation with a BU head and a scoping conversation with a CTO without losing either room.
Comfort with ambiguity and ownership. Engagements start underspecified by design. Closing that gap is the job.
Hands-on experience with Claude, Claude Code, and Cowork (skills, workflows, MCP, integrations, connectors, custom harnesses).
Nice to have
Containers and orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS) and CI/CD in production.
IaC depth: AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform.
Open-source contributions or public writing on applied AI.
What you’ll do:
Spend the first weeks of each engagement in the operator’s seat, learning the constraints from the inside, then rebuild the function from first principles alongside the client and a Forward Deployed Executive — and you are the one who builds it.
Be part of the customer’s team, inside their process; work on real tasks, not scoped deliverables, and own the method autonomously.
You won’t start from zero. Provectus builds industry Blueprints — working systems that have already shipped for a customer in your industry. Your engagement starts from that baseline, and what you learn in the field goes back into it.
Deliver across Cowork Activation, Agentic SDLC, and Blueprint Activations in Financial Services and Healthcare.
Help shape how leading enterprises adopt AI, from strategy through first deployment; help build the tooling and frameworks of a growing AI delivery practice.
What We Offer:
Full-time.
On-site visits to client’s facilities and our office in NYC 1/week
Unlimited Vacation policy.
Generous health, vision, and dental insurance.
401(K) matching plan.
Base salary $180k–$200k + bonuses; OTE up to $250k. The salary range is determined through interviews and a review of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, and alignment with market data.
No Visa sponsorship
We’re real:
A person reads your application. We filter out AI-generated and fraudulent submissions automatically. Every application that clears that filter is read by someone on our team.
We may ask for a quick ID verification. Fraudulent applications are common, and this protects real candidates.
You’ll meet the people you’d work with. We host AI engineering events in New York and San Francisco. We'd be happy to talk in person. Your interviews are with Pavel Borobov, Solutions Architect, and Stepan Pushkarev, Co-Founder & CEO.
How we hire:
Recruitment interview.
Tech interview with our FDE (30 min).
A live engineering building session (1.5 hours). We hand you a business function and the constraints. You have to understand the job and rebuild it — then say what you’d build and how you’d know it worked.
Use AI the way you normally would; we expect AI-generated code. What we look at is how you used AI, the judgment behind your choices, and what you researched beyond what any LLM already knows.
- Soft skills interview.
- Offer discussion.
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Responsibilities
- Learn customer workflows and constraints, then rebuild functions from first principles alongside client teams.
- Design, build, and ship production GenAI systems for real users in regulated industries.
- Own engagements autonomously from problem framing through production deployment.
- Deliver Cowork Activation, Agentic SDLC, and Blueprint Activations in Financial Services and Healthcare.
- Help enterprises adopt AI from strategy through initial deployment.
- Contribute tooling and frameworks to the AI delivery practice.
Qualifications
- Typically 7+ years building software, including substantial accountable production coding experience.
- Hands-on experience shipping GenAI or LLM systems to production.
- Experience building or owning evaluation suites for non-deterministic systems.
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript and strong software engineering fundamentals.
- Experience delivering cloud-native systems on AWS.
- Pre-sales experience and ability to communicate credibly with senior stakeholders.
- Comfort working with ambiguity, taking ownership, and quickly learning unfamiliar business functions.
- Hands-on experience with Claude, Claude Code, and Cowork, including workflows, MCP, integrations, or custom harnesses.
Benefits
- Base salary of $180,000–$200,000 plus bonuses, with OTE up to $250,000.
- Unlimited vacation policy.
- Health, vision, and dental insurance.
- 401(k) matching plan.
- Access to Claude certification, conference talks, open-source contributions, and published work.
Skills mentioned
About Provectus
Provectus is an AI-first systems integrator and solutions provider with builders at its core. We are a Preferred partner in Anthropic's Claude Partner Network and an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner. Provectus has been putting AI into production since 2010. Our clients are financial services firms, insurers, and healthcare and life sciences companies. We build the AI systems that run their core work: underwriting, insurance submissions, financial audits, clinical genomics. More than 100 customers run our systems in production. Every team pairs industry experts with the engineers who build the system. Together they redesign the process with the client's staff, take it to production, and hand over the full code, documentation and architecture. Clients own everything we build. We tie our fees to business results. Each engagement starts with a baseline agreed with the client, and we measure cost, speed and revenue against it. Our 400+ AI builders and 50+ ML researchers work from offices across North America, LATAM, and EMEA. They ship production systems on the newest Claude models and AWS services, and also build on Google Cloud, Azure, OpenAI, Cohere and Databricks when a client's stack calls for it. Our teams are small and senior, and decisions get made by the people doing the work. Engineers own each engagement from start to finish: the data, the architecture, the client relationship, and the result. Work starts from our Blueprints, working systems already in production at other clients, so engineers spend day one on the client's problem. Every engagement brings something new. We run Provectus on the same AI and data systems we build for clients. If you want to build frontier AI that financial services firms, insurers, and life sciences companies depend on, and own the result, see our open roles: https://careers.provectus.com/