Centric Software

Senior Frontier AI Deployment Engineer

Centric Software$130K — $155K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in software, data, ML/AI, solutions engineering, or technical product delivery.
  • Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept to launch.
  • Hands-on participation in at least one generative AI system deployment, with a clear contribution.
  • Strong communication skills to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders effectively.
  • Expertise in defining requirements, acceptance criteria, and execution plans.
  • Familiarity with modern generative AI patterns and production operations.
  • Ability to troubleshoot systems and create lightweight prototypes, though deep coding is not a prerequisite.

Responsibilities

  • Lead discovery sessions to clarify business needs into actionable delivery plans.
  • Facilitate collaboration across international teams for effective decision-making and documentation.
  • Design solutions for generative AI applications, ensuring clarity and feasibility.
  • Oversee prototype and production implementation with a focus on value and quality trade-offs.
  • Collaborate with engineers on deployment architectures and operational readiness.
  • Manage stakeholder-facing presentations, including environment setup and maintenance.
  • Establish metrics for evaluating AI performance and business impact.

Benefits

  • Work with a cutting-edge generative AI technology stack.
  • Collaborative international team environment across diverse geographies.
  • Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning in AI.
  • Flexible work hours to accommodate global stakeholders.
  • Engagement in high-visibility projects with significant organizational impact.
Full Job Description
Position overview

We 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.

This 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.

What you will do
  • Lead discovery with business, product, data, security, and engineering stakeholders; convert ambiguous needs into clear use cases, requirements, acceptance criteria, risks, and delivery plans.
  • Act 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.
  • Shape solution designs for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI agents, tool use, orchestration, evaluation, guardrails, observability, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
  • Guide prototypes and production implementations, making pragmatic tradeoffs across user value, model quality, latency, cost, security, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Partner with engineers and architects on interfaces, data flows, integrations, deployment patterns, and operational readiness; contribute code or technical artifacts when it accelerates delivery.
  • Own 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.
  • Define meaningful success measures and evaluation approaches for AI quality, safety, adoption, and business impact.
  • Stay current on rapidly changing AI capabilities and translate new developments into practical recommendations rather than technology for its own sake.


Required qualifications
  • 6+ years of experience in software, data, ML/AI, solutions engineering, technical product delivery, or a closely related field.
  • Demonstrated senior-level ownership of ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives, including driving decisions and delivery across multiple phases rather than contributing only to isolated technical tasks.
  • Demonstrated 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.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication, including the ability to explain technical choices to nontechnical stakeholders and business context to engineers.
  • Experience eliciting requirements, resolving ambiguity, prioritizing scope, defining acceptance criteria, and driving cross-functional execution.
  • Working 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.
  • Ability to review architecture and code, troubleshoot across system boundaries, and produce lightweight prototypes or examples. Deep specialization in application coding is not required.
  • Experience collaborating across countries and time zones, with disciplined asynchronous documentation and handoffs.
  • Practical understanding of enterprise concerns including data privacy, security, access control, responsible AI, compliance, cost, and reliability.


Preferred qualifications
  • Hands-on experience with AWS generative AI services, especially Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
  • Experience in a forward-deployed, solutions architecture, technical program leadership, consulting, sales engineering, or product ownership role.
  • Experience establishing AI evaluation sets, quality metrics, red-team practices, guardrails, monitoring, or production feedback loops.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, APIs, event-driven systems, vector databases, identity and access management, and CI/CD.
  • Experience facilitating executive or customer-facing workshops and turning outcomes into an executable product or engineering backlog.


Working model

Preferred location: Eastern (or) Central U.S. time zones, or a location with meaningful overlap across those hours. The role requires planned overlap with colleagues in India and Europe. Flexibility for occasional early or late meetings is expected; sustainable schedules and strong asynchronous practices are equally important.

What success looks like
  • Stakeholders understand what is being built, why it matters, and how success will be measured.
  • Distributed teams receive timely decisions, complete context, and low-friction handoffs.
  • AI concepts move from discovery to production with clear quality, safety, cost, and operational criteria.
  • The role earns trust across product, engineering, and business groups by communicating candidly and delivering predictably.

About Centric Software

Centric Software is a leading provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software for fashion, retail, footwear, luxury, outdoor and consumer goods companies. Centric Software provides enterprise solutions to manage the entire product lifecycle, from concept to consumer. Centric Software is headquartered in Silicon Valley and has offices in North America, Europe and Asia.
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500 employees
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1997

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