Remote Principal Forward Deployed Engineer Applied AI Focus

The role This is the deep-end engineering role on the FDE bench. Youre not just configuring on the platform — youre building off it, into it, and around it. On a typical engagement, youre working side-by-side with the clients own engineering team: integrating into their loan origination system, their data warehouse, their identity stack, their CI. Youre the technical authority in the room.
Youre still forward deployed, still co-owning the strategic outcome, still client-facing. But your edge is depth — system design, distributed architecture, secure integration, and the ability to ship production code under banking-grade scrutiny.

What youll do Lead the technical design and delivery of complex banking AI engagements, including off-platform builds and bespoke integrations into client systems

Partner directly with client engineering, security, and architecture teams — speak their language, respect their constraints, design for their reality

Architect end-to-end agentic systems: data ingress, model orchestration, evals, observability, security, and the production wrapper around all of it

Make the call on what to build on Titans platform vs. what to build bespoke vs. what to push back into our roadmap

Mentor mid-level FDEs and influence platform direction by codifying what you learn into reusable assets and patterns

Represent Titans engineering credibility to banking CTOs, CISOs, and their architects

Who you are A senior engineer with real production scars. Youve shipped systems that mattered to real users, at meaningful scale or under meaningful constraint.

A builder above all. Title less interesting than slope. Many of the best people we know took unconventional paths to get here — thats a feature, not an exception.

A strong client-facing presence. You can hold your own with a bank CTO, push back on a CISOs threat model with substance, and translate between engineers and executives in real time.

A systems thinker. You see how a piece fits — and where it doesnt — before you start typing.

Hypothesis-driven, opinion-strong, ego-light. You commit to a direction, you ship to test it, and you change course when the data says to.

Banking or regulated-industry experience strongly preferred — financial services, insurance, healthcare, defense, energy, or similar.

Technical foundation Senior-level full-stack with a strong backend spike — distributed systems, API design, secure integration patterns, infrastructure fluency

Deep experience building production-grade agents using LangChain, LangGraph, DeepAgents, and model-provider SDKs (Claude SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK)

Fluency in agent search patterns — agent file search, vector RAG, vectorless RAG — and the tradeoffs between them

Strong working knowledge of AI security frameworks: observability, data controls, model gateways, prompt and tool-call sandboxing

Hands-on experience designing and running evals; familiarity with training and fine-tuning loops

Process orchestration and automation at scale

Comfort owning architectural decisions across the full stack of a production AI system

Why Titan Were building the AI platform for banking because most of the two million people employed by 4,000+ U.S. banks cannot safely and securely use modern AI tools at work — and none of them are using AI purpose-built for their domain. Were changing that. Our platform includes:
Titan Foundry — secure gateway to top AI models for bank employees

Banking-Reasoning Models — our flagship small language models for financial services, trained by ex-regulators and banking leaders

Banking Agents — a configurable AI application layer with expertise in lending, compliance, underwriting, and operations

Our team comes from Goldman Sachs, KeyBank, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Weve built and sold companies into the top 25 U.S. banks. Were pre-Series A, small, and shipping.
A senior FDE here is the person we point to when a clients CTO asks "whos actually building this?" — and the answer needs to be unambiguous.

What we offer Competitive base salary plus meaningful pre-Series A equity (senior-level grant)

Remote-first with regular client travel (~30–50%, depending on engagement)

Unlimited PTO

100% of employee medical, dental, and vision premiums covered by Titan