AI Solutions Architect / Forward-Deployed Engineer

This role serves as a strategic and hands-on AI leader responsible for identifying, designing, and delivering enterprise AI solutions that drive measurable business value. The position partners closely with business and technology teams to evaluate opportunities, build production-ready generative AI and automation solutions, establish governance and best practices, and ensure successful adoption at scale. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering and AI expertise with business acumen, stakeholder influence, and a proven ability to translate complex business challenges into secure, scalable, and high-impact solutions.

• →Map business processes and assess data readiness to identify high-value AI opportunities, prioritizing initiatives based on business impact, feasibility, risk, and expected ROI.
• →Define baselines, cost models, success metrics, and value realization plans to measure outcomes and ensure accountability.
• →Design secure, scalable AI solutions spanning generative AI, automation, integrations, APIs, data pipelines, and intelligent agents.
• →Select models, architectures, and implementation patterns based on accuracy, latency, explainability, security, reliability, and cost considerations.
• →Partner directly with business teams to prototype, validate, and productionize AI solutions that address real operational challenges.
• →Build and review code, integrations, data transformations, and AI workflows while proactively removing technical and delivery roadblocks.
• →Establish governance frameworks that incorporate privacy, access controls, testing, evaluation, human oversight, observability, deployment, support, and lifecycle management.
• →Lead stakeholder alignment across executives and delivery teams, communicate tradeoffs and realized value, and scale successful solutions through reusable standards and components.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field 
• 5+ years in enterprise solution architecture, forward-deployed engineering, software engineering, or technical consulting, with a record of moving ambiguous business problems through production adoption and measurable results.
• Strong Python and/or Node.js/TypeScript skills with experience building APIs, integrations, data workflows, automation, SQL solutions, event-driven systems, and cloud-native applications on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Practical experience implementing generative AI and LLM solutions, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool integration, agents, model evaluation, and cost/performance optimization.
• Experience designing and delivering secure, private, reliable, observable, scalable, and maintainable production-grade solutions.
• Ability to develop business cases that quantify baselines, benefits, implementation and operating costs, risks, assumptions, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage executives, business leaders, architects, engineers, and governance partners effectively.

• Experience within the distribution industry.
• Experience leading enterprise-wide adoption of reusable architectures, shared components, and scalable delivery patterns.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field 
• 5+ years in enterprise solution architecture, forward-deployed engineering, software engineering, or technical consulting, with a record of moving ambiguous business problems through production adoption and measurable results.
• Strong Python and/or Node.js/TypeScript skills with experience building APIs, integrations, data workflows, automation, SQL solutions, event-driven systems, and cloud-native applications on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Practical experience implementing generative AI and LLM solutions, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool integration, agents, model evaluation, and cost/performance optimization.
• Experience designing and delivering secure, private, reliable, observable, scalable, and maintainable production-grade solutions.
• Ability to develop business cases that quantify baselines, benefits, implementation and operating costs, risks, assumptions, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage executives, business leaders, architects, engineers, and governance partners effectively.

Full-time and part-time positions are available. To explore this exciting Account Executive opportunity and other career opportunities at Carrier Enterprise, visit our careers page at www.carrierenterprise.com/careers. Learn more about our company and team.  

Carrier Enterprise, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, race, religion, disability, sex, or national origin. We support a diverse and inclusive workplace where we employ, retain, terminate, and otherwise treat all employees and job applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications, and competence.