Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery across discovery, architecture, implementation, production deployment, and post-launch support.
• Embed with client engineering and business teams to translate business problems into defensible technical architectures.
• Build production full-stack applications and agentic AI systems, including LLM-backed workflows, agent orchestration, evaluation frameworks, and financial-services integrations.
• Design APIs and integration surfaces for legacy, poorly documented, and load-bearing platforms.
• Harden prototypes for regulated production environments through security reviews, audit trails, PII handling, and performance testing.
• Scope client requests, recommend when to reduce or change scope, and communicate those decisions to stakeholders.
• Guide client engineers and leave documented, runnable, and maintainable software behind.
• Own difficult production issues in client infrastructure and proactively identify risks.
• Create implementation plans, sequence work, and delegate to internal and client-side engineers without direct people-management responsibility.
• Travel to client sites 20–30% of the time.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience shipping production full-stack software.
• Strong Python experience, with .NET or Node.js accepted as substitutes.
• React or Next.js front-end experience.
• Experience leading the technical side of a delivery, including owning implementation plans and directing engineers without managing them.
• Experience with API design and systems integration, including legacy or poorly documented systems.
• Real client-facing delivery experience, including discovery sessions, difficult stakeholders, and independent account delivery.
• Production experience with LLMs and agents, including prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale.
• Ability to work through ambiguity, communicate with both engineers and executives, and make appropriate scope decisions.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.
• Willingness to travel to client sites 20–30% of the time.

Benefits

• Remote work is available from specified U.S. states, with no international relocation or remote work outside the U.S.
• Medical, dental, vision, disability insurance, wellness days, and a wellness program.
• IRA retirement plan with an employer match of up to 3% annually.
• 15 days of PTO, 9 U.S. holidays, 5 sick days, additional PTO accrual over time, and a company closure during the last week of the year.
• Paid parental leave.
• Healthy work/life balance with an encouraged maximum work week of 40 hours.
• Stable company with more than 25 years in business.