
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI
Posted 3 days ago

Posted 3 days ago
This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.
• Collaborate directly with GP clients to pinpoint workflows where customized AI agents can provide leverage.
• Conduct discovery sessions and translate unclear business challenges into defined requirements, scope, and acceptance criteria.
• Guide solutions from the prototyping phase and client validation to hardening, deployment, and full production rollout.
• Design and construct agentic systems, which include retrieval and context design, tool and MCP integration, orchestration, evaluation harnesses, observability, and cost management.
• Independently manage client-edge solutions while collaborating with platform and product engineering teams.
• Make engineering decisions that balance reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Take ownership of deployed solutions through user adoption, post-launch support, iterative feedback from users, and ongoing operations.
• Create documentation, provide user training, and oversee rollouts.
• Set technical standards for less experienced engineers and assist them in managing engagements.
• Over 5 years of professional experience delivering software from start to finish, with practical experience in developing AI-enabled applications.
• Proven history of taking ownership of delivery, not just implementation.
• Capability to convert vague business needs into actionable requirements and deliver functional software.
• Comprehensive full-stack engineering skills across data, services, user interfaces, and infrastructure.
• Practical experience in deploying and managing applications on a significant cloud platform.
• Knowledge of containers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD processes, and production monitoring.
• Experience in working directly with external clients or customers.
• Proficiency in AI-assisted development, with the ability to understand, debug, and advocate for all produced outputs.
• Strong product judgment regarding scope definition, prioritization, and successful release completion.
• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Experience in private markets, financial services, or another regulated, data-sensitive field is a plus.
• Familiarity with application security, client-data management, SOC 2 requirements, and multi-tenant isolation is beneficial.
• Experience in building evaluation and regression tests for non-deterministic systems is an added advantage.
• Background in consulting, professional services, or forward-deployed engineering is desirable.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family.
• Life insurance coverage.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Assistance with fertility and family growth.
• Flex Time Off in addition to company-paid holidays.
• Policies for paid family leave, medical leave, and bereavement leave.
• Retirement saving plans.
• Budget to customize your work and technology setup at home.
• Annual stipend for professional development.
• Equity opportunities.
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