Senior AI Deployment Architect (Forward-Deployed)

Prologis; Cerritos (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) with company match

Generous PTO

Job summary

Prologis is seeking a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to steer high-impact AI deployments across business domains. You will remain hands-on in architecture, code, evaluation and production implementation, guiding Senior FDEs and partner engineers while delivering measurable business value.

You will anchor deployments, set technical direction and ensure readiness against acceptance criteria, with strong collaboration across AI Product, Platform, Security and Governance teams.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of hands-on software engineering, AI engineering, technical delivery or enterprise-solution experience.
• Proven experience leading multiple complex software or AI deployments from discovery through business acceptance, production release and ownership transfer.
• Experience partnering with business leaders to reimagine end-to-end business processes using AI and contribute to engineering delivery with measurable improvements.
• Strong hands-on programming and architecture skills across Python, APIs, data platforms, cloud and modern technologies.
• Deep practical experience with LLM applications, agentic systems, retrieval, tool integration, evaluations, guardrails and production observability.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, data integration, identity, security and software-operating models.
• Ability to lead technical delivery without relying on formal organizational authority.
• Ability to work directly with senior business executives and translate strategy into executable technical work.
• Strong product judgment to distinguish reusable patterns from one-off customization and make disciplined build, buy or stop decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to create reusable engineering components, evaluation assets, standards and playbooks.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including executive communication and technical design documentation.
• Ability to acquire deep domain context quickly and use it to make sound enterprise delivery tradeoffs.
• A formal engineering or computer-science degree is not required when equivalent practical experience and demonstrated technical leadership are present.

Responsibilities

• Build deep fluency in an anchor domain and lead a portfolio of deployments spanning multiple workflows, business units or enterprise systems.
• Ensure each deployment has defined outcomes, sponsorship, architecture, milestones, production ownership and a handoff plan.
• Work directly with business leaders, frontline users and AI Product to identify high-value opportunities and inform value case, success measures and operating constraints for each deployment.
• Translate strategic objectives into redesigned workflows that combine AI agents, software and human judgment; define roadmaps, architectures, dependencies and acceptance criteria.
• Architect, build, test and troubleshoot production-grade AI applications, agents, retrieval systems and workflow solutions.
• Set technical direction for FDE deployments and guide Senior FDEs and partner teams.
• Resolve tradeoffs among business value, engineering quality, security, speed and cost.
• Design test sets, acceptance thresholds, regression testing, observability, security and governance into the solution.
• Coordinate with central AI Product, Platform, Data and Governance teams and others.
• Facilitate business validation against acceptance criteria and ensure production-readiness and durable ownership.
• Identify reusable patterns and patterns that can become shared components or reference architectures.
• Mentor Senior FDEs and raise the quality of technical discovery and stakeholder communication.
• Provide concise executive reporting on value, delivery progress, risks and decisions.
• Help define the Prologis FDE delivery methodology, engineering standards and playbooks.

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

AI engineering

Technical delivery

Python

LLM applications

Executive communication

Architecture design

Tools

APIs

Data platforms

Cloud

Retrieval systems

Security & governance basics

Job description

Prologis is seeking a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to steer high-impact AI deployments across business domains. You will remain hands-on in architecture, code, evaluation and production implementation, guiding Senior FDEs and partner engineers while delivering measurable business value.

You will anchor deployments, set technical direction and ensure readiness against acceptance criteria, with strong collaboration across AI Product, Platform, Security and Governance teams.