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We equip retail, fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home and consumer goods brands with pioneering best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products. Our technology powers brands to streamline processes, drive efficiency and operate with confidence in an ever-changing market.\nOur story is one of rapid growth, bold ideas and extraordinary opportunities. We’re here to challenge the status quo-and we’re looking for brilliant people who want to do the same. No matter where you are in the world, this is your chance to be part of something exceptional.\nPosition overview\nWe are seeking a Senior Frontier AI Deployment Engineer to bridge product, engineering, and business stakeholders as we design and deliver production-oriented generative AI solutions. This role combines the practical judgment of an AI engineer with the ownership mindset of a product lead. The ideal candidate is an exceptional communicator who can clarify requirements, shape solution approaches, guide distributed teams and keep delivery moving from discovery through launch.\nThis is not a pure software-development role. Strong technical fluency and hands-on delivery experience are required, but success depends more on systems thinking, stakeholder alignment, clear written and verbal communication, and sound product judgment than on writing large volumes of code.\n What you will do\nLead discovery with business, product, data, security, and engineering stakeholders; convert ambiguous needs into clear use cases, requirements, acceptance criteria, risks, and delivery plans.\n\nAct as the connective layer among teams in India, Europe, and North American Central and Pacific time zones, creating crisp decisions, handoffs, documentation, and follow-through.\n\nShape solution designs for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI agents, tool use, orchestration, evaluation, guardrails, observability, and human-in-the-loop workflows.\n\nGuide prototypes and production implementations, making pragmatic tradeoffs across user value, model quality, latency, cost, security, reliability, and maintainability.\n\nPartner with engineers and architects on interfaces, data flows, integrations, deployment patterns, and operational readiness; contribute code or technical artifacts when it accelerates delivery.\n\nOwn stakeholder-facing demos and the supporting demo sites and environments, including setup, access, content and data readiness, reliability, presentation quality, and ongoing maintenance; lead stakeholder updates and technical workshops.\n\nDefine meaningful success measures and evaluation approaches for AI quality, safety, adoption, and business impact.\n\nStay current on rapidly changing AI capabilities and translate new developments into practical recommendations rather than technology for its own sake.\n\nRequired qualifications\n6+ years of experience in software, data, ML/AI, solutions engineering, technical product delivery, or a closely related field.\n\nDemonstrated senior-level ownership of ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives, including driving decisions and delivery across multiple phases rather than contributing only to isolated technical tasks.\n\nDemonstrated delivery experience with at least one generative AI system, such as RAG, AI agents, copilots, semantic search, or LLM-enabled workflow automation. Candidates need not have built every component alone, but must clearly explain their contribution and the system’s end-to-end behavior.\n\nExcellent written, verbal, and visual communication, including the ability to explain technical choices to nontechnical stakeholders and business context to engineers.\n\nExperience eliciting requirements, resolving ambiguity, prioritizing scope, defining acceptance criteria, and driving cross-functional execution.\n\nWorking knowledge of modern generative AI patterns: prompt and context design, embeddings and retrieval, agent/tool orchestration, model selection, evaluation, safety controls, observability, and production operations.\n\nAbility to review architecture and code, troubleshoot across system boundaries, and produce lightweight prototypes or examples. Deep specialization in application coding is not required.\n\nExperience collaborating across countries and time zones, with disciplined asynchronous documentation and handoffs.\n\nPractical understanding of enterprise concerns including data privacy, security, access control, responsible AI, compliance, cost, and reliability.\n\nPreferred qualifications\nHands-on experience with AWS generative AI services, especially Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.\n\nExperience in a forward-deployed, solutions architecture, technical program leadership, consulting, sales engineering, or product ownership role.\n\nExperience establishing AI evaluation sets, quality metrics, red-team practices, guardrails, monitoring, or production feedback loops.\n\nFamiliarity with cloud-native architectures, APIs, event-driven systems, vector databases, identity and access management, and CI/CD.\n\nExperience facilitating executive or customer-facing workshops and turning outcomes into an executable product or engineering backlog.\n\nWorking model\nPreferred location: Eastern (or) Central U.S. time zones, or a location with meaningful overlap across those hours. 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