AI Forward-Deployment Architect & Tech Lead

ClifyX; Edison (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

ClifyX is seeking a Technical Architect - Forward Deployment Engineer AI to lead hands-on AI/GenAI solutions across client sites or TCS offices. You will design architectures, build prototypes, and guide teams through production deployment in cloud environments.

The role demands deep expertise in backend services, AI integration, and data processing, with strong leadership to mentor engineers and communicate trade-offs to stakeholders. Onsite work across multiple US locations is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related field.
• Experience developing backend services, APIs, and distributed applications.
• Experience processing and transforming structured and /or unstructured data.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Experience in Git, testing frameworks, code reviews and modern software engineering practices.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting capabilities.
• Hands-on exposure to Large Language Models and Generative AI, including embeddings and vector search.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery sessions to understand customer business problems, existing technology landscape, data, applications and constraints.
• Translate customer requirements and business problems into scalable technical solutions.
• Own the end-to-end technical implementation from discovery and prototyping through production deployment.
• Design and develop application services, APIs, integrations and AI-enabled solutions.
• Remain hands-on with coding, debugging, code reviews and technical troubleshooting.
• Lead rapid prototyping and Proof-of-Concept development to validate solution approaches.
• Define application architecture, APIs, data flows, integration patterns and deployment approaches.
• Guide engineers across software, AI, data, cloud and platform technologies.
• Review code and ensure engineering quality, security, scalability and maintainability.
• Diagnose complex application, data, integration, infrastructure and production issues.
• Drive solutions from prototype to production-ready implementation.
• Mentor junior and graduate FDEs and provide technical support and guidance.
• Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, risks and recommendations clearly to customer stakeholders.

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Git

Testing frameworks

Vector databases

LLM APIs

Embeddings

Job description

ClifyX is seeking a Technical Architect - Forward Deployment Engineer AI to lead hands-on AI/GenAI solutions across client sites or TCS offices. You will design architectures, build prototypes, and guide teams through production deployment in cloud environments.

The role demands deep expertise in backend services, AI integration, and data processing, with strong leadership to mentor engineers and communicate trade-offs to stakeholders. Onsite work across multiple US locations is expected.