Forward-Deployed AI Engineer: Enterprise AI Solutions

NextBigWhat

New York (MO)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

American Express is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to partner with business units, product teams, and engineering to identify high-value AI opportunities and translate challenges into measurable value using Generative AI and agentic systems.

You will take opportunities from discovery through proof of value to production, balancing speed with security and governance, and collaborating with engineers to deliver reliable software across enterprise APIs and data sources.

Qualifications

3+ years delivering software, technical solutions, or digital products in engineering/architecture roles.
Experience using coding agents in a structured engineering workflow, including specification-driven development, context management, iterative implementation, and reusable knowledge repositories.
Strong communication and stakeholder-partnership skills.
Experience in mobile, web, backend services, APIs, distributed systems, platform engineering, workflow orchestration, or cloud-native development.
Ability to reason about systems end to end and connect technical decisions to business outcomes.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States.

Responsibilities

Lead discovery sessions translating business needs into clear use cases, value propositions, measurable success criteria, and solution direction.
Design, build, and deploy Generative AI, agentic AI, and intelligent automation solutions using approved enterprise platform capabilities.
Develop working demonstrations and proofs of value that test assumptions and measure business impact.
Take solutions through prototyping, production scaling, adoption, and transition to long-term ownership.
Build agents and AI-enabled workflows that interact with enterprise APIs, knowledge sources, data platforms, applications, code, and business processes.