Forward Deployed Engineer

This is a high-impact technical role at a well-funded AI data platform serving the alternative investments space including private equity private credit and venture capital firms. You will own the full technical customer relationship bridging pre-sales engineering and post-sales implementation to drive measurable outcomes for some of the most demanding data users in finance.

• Build and demo custom solutions directly on customer data connecting structured and unstructured sources such as PDFs spreadsheets and databases.
• Own pre-sales technical work: create reusable demo environments run private demos on prospect data and shape deal strategy alongside the go-to-market team.
• Support post-sales implementations including data integrations evaluations and feedback loops in collaboration with product engineers.
• Manage technical relationships at customer firms sitting alongside analysts to understand their workflows firsthand.
• Translate recurring customer patterns into product insights identifying what should be productized versus handled as a one-off solution.

• 3 or more years of professional experience as a full-stack or backend software engineer shipping production systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL with comfort navigating codebases and working with unstructured data.
• Direct customer-facing technical experience in a revenue-generating capacity such as solutions engineering field development or technical account management.
• Track record of working in early-stage or AI-native companies demonstrating an ability to build in ambiguous resource-constrained environments.
• Solid grasp of AI and ML concepts including RAG embeddings LLMs vector databases and agentic workflows plus the communication skills to explain them to non-technical stakeholders.
• Evidence of revenue impact or direct involvement in sales cycles not just a purely technical perspective on customer work.
• Strong CS fundamentals ideally backed by a technical degree.
• Exposure to or genuine interest in financial services particularly alternative asset management workflows.

Base salary range: $150000 to $275000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

On-site in San Francisco CA. Candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco or New York City.