American Express
Senior AI Engineer II - Forward Deployment Engineer - Enterprise AI Platforms
Sunnyvale, CA +1 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- 5 or more years delivering software, technical solutions, or digital products in an engineering, architecture, or technical consulting capacity.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required; the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
About the job
Partners with business and engineering teams to discover, build, deploy, and scale secure AI solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes and reusable enterprise capabilities.
What you'll do
- Identify business opportunities and translate them into use cases, value propositions, and measurable success criteria.
- Build and take Generative AI, agentic AI, and automation solutions from demonstrations and proofs of value through production adoption.
- Develop evaluation, governance, and reusable platform patterns while aligning stakeholders across business, product, and engineering.
What they ask for
- Experience taking an ambiguous business or user problem through discovery, implementation, and measurable validation.
- Experience using coding agents in a structured engineering workflow, including specification-driven development and context management.
- Software engineering fluency and experience in at least one relevant domain, such as mobile, web, backend services, APIs, distributed systems, platform engineering, workflow orchestration, or cloud-native development.
- Strong systems reasoning, communication, and stakeholder-partnership skills, including influencing without direct authority.
Nice to have
- Experience building or deploying language model, agentic, or AI-enabled process solutions.
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, tool calling, model context protocols, or workflow technologies such as Temporal, LangGraph, LangChain, or LlamaIndex.
Pay
$123000 - $215250 annually (base salary)
Tools
Generative AI, Temporal, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex
AI focus
Build and scale Generative AI, agentic systems, and intelligent automation; use coding agents and AI-assisted engineering; evaluate solutions and apply responsible AI, security, and governance controls.
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