AI Engineer

Our client, a leading organization in the financial services industry, is seeking a Sr Forward Deployed Engineer to join their team. You will be part of the Global Service4s Org supporting innovative financial technology solutions. The ideal candidate will have experience independently design, build, and deliver production systems with minimal support.

Client: American Express

Job Title: Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer 

Location: Phoenix, Arizona - 3 days onsite, hybrid model 

Length: contract - budget approved until 12/25/26, can extend for a 1 year

Pay Range: $60/74 /hr w2

What's the Job?

• The FDE will meet with stakeholders, design the solution themselves, build the backend, build and deploy GenAI/RAG systems, make architecture decisions, handle production issues, optimize performance and scale; and own the project from start to finish.
• Design, build, and ship LLM-powered and agentic product features that transform customer financial management experiences.
• Develop agentic AI systems capable of reasoning over context, invoking tools, executing real actions, and recovering from failures gracefully.
• Architect and implement production-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines over sensitive financial data, ensuring correctness, auditability, and safety.
• Contribute to shared AI infrastructure, including LLM services, agent orchestration frameworks, and evaluation and monitoring tools that support scalable agentic development.
• Own the systems you build in production, focusing on reliability, latency, cost efficiency, and failure management.

What's Needed?

• 7+ years of experience in Ai engineering
• Production GenAi/Agentic Ai experience 
• Typescript, Go, Python experience
• Distributed systems
• Cloud (AWS/GCP) 
• RAG production implementation
• Kubernetes
• Kafka
• Event-driven architecture
• Frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph
• Architecture, Scale & Performance Optimization experience 

What's in it for me?

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI technology that impacts financial services.
• Collaborate with a diverse and innovative team committed to excellence.
• Engage in meaningful projects that promote professional growth and development.
• Contribute to a secure, reliable, and high-impact AI infrastructure.
• Be part of an organization recognized for diversity, inclusion, and ethical standards.

Upon completion of waiting period consultants are eligible for:

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account
• Health Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Business Travel Insurance
• 401(k), Plus Match
• Weekly Pay

If this is a role that interests you and you'd like to learn more, click apply now and a recruiter will be in touch with you to discuss this great opportunity. We look forward to speaking with you!

About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of: Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells.

ManpowerGroup® (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands – Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells – creates substantial value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized consistently for our diversity - as a best place to work for Women, Inclusion, Equality and Disability and in 2023 ManpowerGroup was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 14th year - all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand talent.