Senior AI Engineer II - Forward Deployment - Enterprise AI Platforms

Senior AI Engineer II – Forward Deployment – Enterprise AI PlatformsJoin a team shaping the future of AI at American Express. You will work directly with business and product leaders to turn high-value opportunities into trusted, secure, and responsible AI solutions, while helping successful ideas become reusable capabilities across the enterprise.As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you will partner closely with business units, product teams, and engineering organizations to identify and reframe high-value opportunities, translate business challenges into clear value propositions, and build working solutions using Generative AI, agentic systems, and intelligent automation.You will take opportunities from discovery and demonstration through proof of value, production scaling, adoption, and transition to long-term ownership. Demonstrations are a means of validating grounded value propositions, not the end goal. You will be accountable for advancing credible opportunities into real adoption and durable ways of working, with each stage tied to measurable outcomes and balanced with enterprise requirements for security, reliability, and responsible AI.This is a hands-on engineering role with a significant stakeholder engagement component. You will influence without direct authority, communicate across levels of seniority and technical familiarity, and work alongside engineers to build and deploy reliable software.You will challenge assumptions about how work is performed, analyze processes as systems, and identify the technical, operational, and organizational levers that can improve them. You will define a longer-term direction while sequencing practical near-term solutions that build toward it.Responsibilities include:Opportunity discovery and transformationSolution design and deliveryAI-enabled engineering practicesPlatform contribution and scaleEvaluation, governance, and responsible AIStakeholder leadershipQualifications include:5 or more years of experience