Caylent
Cloud Native Services
SeniorForwardDeployedEngineer
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“Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Caylent. Skills: AI services, Cloud native, Account ownership, LLM applications. Own full client relationship. Make architecture decisions”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver value before requirements defined; Contribute IP back to practice
Industry & Context.
Translate ambiguous problems; Identify scope creep; Manage scope creep; Surface risks
No visa sponsorship
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years engineering experience, 5+ years technical delivery experience, Meaningful time embedded context, Meaningful time client-facing context, Proven solo account delivery, Owned client relationship kickoff close, Independent technical decisions, Manage delivery quality client environments, Technically precise communicator, Clear confident communicator VP-level, Adjusts depth without losing accuracy, High tolerance ambiguity, Delivers value before requirements defined
Nice to Have
Experience building production AI systems, Hands-on with Claude, Hands-on with AWS Bedrock, Background consulting firm, Background systems integrator, Background professional services, Familiarity SOW-based delivery, Familiarity scope management, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, Background management consulting, Background enterprise SaaS implementation, Background business function deeply known, Experience designing AI enablement programs, Experience running AI enablement programs, Hands-on with Zapier, Hands-on with Power Automate, Hands-on with Airtable, Familiarity enterprise systems, Track record working cross-functionally, Comfortable Finance, Comfortable Legal, Comfortable Operations
What You'll Do.
Own full client relationship
Make architecture decisions
Stand behind decisions
Run architecture reviews
Run stakeholder interviews
Translate ambiguous problems
Scope deliverable work
Identify expansion opportunities
Surface expansion opportunities
Run maintainable software
Run maintainable automations
Create reusable components
Run technical engagements
Own architecture decisions
Lead LLM-native delivery
Lead AI adoption programs
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Client organizations; Business workforces; Technical bench support
Communication Scope
Technically precise; Clear confident; Adjusts depth
Process & Methodology
Scope management, SOW-based delivery
Full Job Description
Caylent is a cloud native services company that helps organizations bring the best out of their people and technology using Amazon Web Services (AWS). We provide a full-range of AWS services including workload migrations and modernization, cloud native application development, DevOps, data engineering, security and compliance, and everything in between. At Caylent, our people always come first. We are a global company and operate fully remote with employees in Canada, the United States, and Latin America. We celebrate the culture of each of our team members and foster a community of technological curiosity. Come talk to us to learn more about what it means to be a Caylien! The Mission Caylent's Anthropic Business Unit is a dedicated AI services practice built in partnership with Anthropic — Anthropic's first pure-play delivery partner. Engagements are production-grade: agents, data products, AI-augmented operations, workforce transformation. Senior FDEs run their own accounts — full relationship, from discovery through close, without anyone above managing the engagement. You scope, architect, build, and close. You are the account. We hire into two specializations: Technology-Workforce FDEs run solo technical engagements in engineering and IT organizations, owning architecture decisions and LLM-native delivery end-to-end; Operational FDEs lead single-function AI adoption programs across business workforces — persona discovery, role-specific enablement, and workflow automations deployed and owned by you. Your Assignment Own the full client relationship on your account from discovery through close Make architecture and build decisions appropriate to the client's environment and constraints; stand behind them Run discovery, architecture reviews, and stakeholder interviews independently; translate ambiguous problems into scoped, deliverable work Identify scope creep and manage it — surface risks before they become problems Identify and surface expansion opportunities Tra
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