Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Caylent is a cloud native services company that helps organizations bring the best out of their people and technology using Amazon Web Services (AWS). We provide a full-range of AWS services including workload migrations and modernization, cloud native application development, DevOps, data engineering, security and compliance, and everything in between.

At Caylent, our people always come first. We are a global company and operate fully remote with employees in Canada, the United States, and Latin America. We celebrate the culture of each of our team members and foster a community of technological curiosity. Come talk to us to learn more about what it means to be a Caylien!

The Mission

Caylent's Anthropic Business Unit is a dedicated AI services practice built in partnership with Anthropic — Anthropic's first pure-play delivery partner. Engagements are production-grade: agents, data products, AI-augmented operations, workforce transformation.

Senior FDEs run their own accounts — full relationship, from discovery through close, without anyone above managing the engagement. You scope, architect, build, and close. You are the account.

We hire into two specializations: Technology-Workforce FDEs run solo technical engagements in engineering and IT organizations, owning architecture decisions and LLM-native delivery end-to-end; Operational FDEs lead single-function AI adoption programs across business workforces — persona discovery, role-specific enablement, and workflow automations deployed and owned by you.

Your Assignment

Own the full client relationship on your account from discovery through close

Make architecture and build decisions appropriate to the client's environment and constraints; stand behind them

Run discovery, architecture reviews, and stakeholder interviews independently; translate ambiguous problems into scoped, deliverable work

Identify scope creep and manage it — surface risks before they become problems

Identify and surface expansion opportunities

Transfer capability that lasts: documented, runnable, maintainable software or automations that work after you leave

Contribute IP back to the practice after every engagement: patterns, templates, and reusable components

Your Qualifications

5+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience with meaningful time in embedded or client-facing contexts

Proven solo account delivery: evidence you've owned a client relationship from kickoff through close without supervision

Hands-on depth in one or more of: LLM application development, cloud-native architecture (AWS preferred), backend systems at scale, or enterprise business automation

Demonstrated ability to make independent technical decisions and manage your own delivery quality inside client environments

Strong communicator: technically precise with engineers, clear and confident with VP-level leadership; adjusts depth without losing accuracy

High tolerance for ambiguity; consistently delivers value before all requirements are defined

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building production AI systems: RAG pipelines, agents, fine-tuned models, or LLM-native applications

Hands-on with Claude, AWS Bedrock, or equivalent — model parameters, prompt architecture, tool use

Background in a consulting firm, systems integrator, or professional services environment

Familiarity with SOW-based delivery and scope management

AWS certifications: Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, or equivalent

Operational Preferred

Background in management consulting, enterprise SaaS implementation, or a business function you know deeply from the inside

Experience designing and running AI enablement programs for non-technical business audiences

Hands-on with Zapier, Power Automate, Airtable, or similar; familiarity with enterprise systems like Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow

Track record working cross-functionally — comfortable in Finance and Legal and Operations in the same engagement

Who Thrives here

You carry an account without daily check-ins, read tension in a client org before it surfaces, and bring expansion signals forward without being asked. This role is structured around full account ownership — people who do well here are energized by that autonomy and accountability.

Why This Team

The work is at the frontier — agents, AI product builds, enterprise adoption — and you own the outcomes, not just the hours. Autonomy with backing: minimal oversight in the field, a strong technical bench behind you when the problem warrants it. Advancement tied to delivery performance and expansion generation, not tenure.

Benefits

Medical Insurance for you and eligible dependents

401k plan with company match up to 4% and immediate vesting

Competitive phantom equity

Company issued laptop

Dental and Vision insurance

Term Disability Insurance

Term Life Insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Equipment Office Stipend

Annual stipend for Learning and Development

Unlimited…