Generative AI Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

Most modernization work doesn't ship, it stalls in pilots, slips a year, or lands at three times the budget. production systems running, legacy retired, outcomes measured. architecture, judgment, and cutover, on dates we commit to in the contract. Forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) are Mactores' services layer.

What you'll do

• Deliver production agentic AI systems and AWS modernization engagements on committed dates across three pillars: Data Platform Modernization
• Build and productionize AI agents, orchestration, retrieval pipelines, evaluation harnesses, observability running against real customer data, not demo data
• Make agent decisions traceable and defensible, validation runs in parallel with live workloads, and outputs hold up to internal audit and regulators (HIPAA, PCI-DSS
• Present architecture to customer CTOs, write documents that hold up in audit, and defend judgment calls in the room

What you need

• 3–10 yrs of experience
• LLMs
• Machine learning
• AWS
• Python
• Prompt engineering
• Redshift
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Kafka
• Internal audit
• DynamoDB
• CI/CD
• C++
• .NET