Remote Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

Caylent; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401k with match

Dental & vision

Disability & life insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Equipment stipend

Learning stipend

Unlimited PTO

Paid holidays

Job summary

Caylent, an AI-first cloud services company, is hiring for a Forward Deployed Engineer role within our Anthropic AI unit. You will own assigned workstreams end-to-end in client environments, deliver production-grade code from day one, and help build LLM-native production systems across finance, HR, and ops functions.

We seek 2–4 years of software engineering or technical delivery, with hands-on experience in LLM app development, cloud-native development, or backend engineering.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of software engineering, technical delivery, or business systems experience.
• Demonstrated ability to self-direct on assigned scope — managing your own time, priorities, and delivery quality without daily oversight.
• Hands-on experience in one or more of: LLM application development, cloud-native development, backend engineering, or business automation tooling.
• Strong communicator: technically clear with engineers, accessible and credible with business stakeholders.
• High tolerance for ambiguity; starts delivering before every requirement is defined.

Responsibilities

• Own assigned workstreams end-to-end within a larger engagement — your scope is yours to drive, not wait on
• Build and ship in client codebases and environments — not in sandboxes
• Contribute to discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and stakeholder interviews alongside senior FDEs
• Translate ambiguous problems into scoped, deliverable work on your assigned scope
• Surface risks and blockers early — elevate intentionally when decisions exceed your scope
• Transfer capability that lasts: document and hand off working software or automations that stand on their own after you leave
• Contribute at least one reusable artifact or pattern back to the practice before each engagement closes

Skills

LLM app development

Cloud-native development

Backend engineering

Business automation tooling

Strong communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Self-directed work

Tools

Claude API

AWS Bedrock

Job description

Caylent, an AI-first cloud services company, is hiring for a Forward Deployed Engineer role within our Anthropic AI unit. You will own assigned workstreams end-to-end in client environments, deliver production-grade code from day one, and help build LLM-native production systems across finance, HR, and ops functions.

We seek 2–4 years of software engineering or technical delivery, with hands-on experience in LLM app development, cloud-native development, or backend engineering.