Forward Deployed AI Engineer

At Franklin Templeton, we believe success is built through powerful partnerships. As a forward‑thinking asset manager, we build dynamic relationships with clients, understand their goals, and navigate complex markets together. We leverage cutting‑edge strategies and deep insights to unlock opportunities for long‑term wealth creation. Our talented, global teams bring expertise that is both broad and unique.

From our welcoming, inclusive, and supportive culture to our globally diverse business, we offer opportunities not only to help you reach your potential, but also to contribute to our clients’ success.

About The Department The Forward Deployed Artificial Intelligence team partners with product, engineering, data, and business teams to convert valuable opportunities into practical artificial intelligence solutions. Team members work directly within supported teams, combining product thinking, business analysis, and hands-on engineering. FDE will view their own success through the success of the teams they enable. You will collaborate openly, share reusable knowledge, and help teams develop lasting artificial intelligence capabilities while gaining exposure to varied products, customers, technologies, and business challenges.

How you will add value? Core Responsibilities

• You will identify high-value artificial intelligence opportunities across customer and operational workflows.
• You will evaluate opportunities using data, observation, and product analysis.
• You will build and improve agents, automations, retrieval solutions, and human-review workflows.
• You will create test datasets, simulations, evaluations, tracing, and regression checks.
• You will guide solutions through discovery, prototyping, risk review, release, and monitoring.
• You will communicate risks, limitations, and trade-offs clearly.
• You will recommend when teams should proceed, redesign, iterate, or stop.

Strategic Responsibilities

• You will convert successful solutions into reusable tools, patterns, playbooks, and documentation.
• You will study adjacent teams, products, workflows, technical approaches, and experiments.
• You will identify repeatable approaches across teams while respecting local requirements.
• You will strengthen shared platforms, repositories, and artificial intelligence communities.

Team & Collaboration

• You will embed within teams and adapt to their engineering and product practices.
• You will connect teams addressing similar challenges and reduce duplicated effort.
• You will share knowledge, recognise contributions, and build colleagues’ confidence.

What will help you be successful in this role? Experience, Education & Certifications

• Experience building software, data products, automations, or artificial intelligence applications.
• Experience collaborating with product teams, internal customers, or business functions.
• Experience operating effectively in ambiguous, cross-functional environments.
• Experience supporting adoption of new tools and engineering practices.
• Education and certification requirements to be confirmed.

Technical Skills

• Python, TypeScript, or JavaScript proficiency with application programming interface development.
• Experience with large language models, agents, retrieval, orchestration, structured outputs, and human review.
• Experience with agent frameworks or cloud-native artificial intelligence services.
• Knowledge of automated evaluations, observability, tracing, versioning, and regression testing.
• Familiarity with Git, continuous integration and delivery, Docker, databases, and cloud platforms.
• Understanding of security, identity, access, data handling, logging, and auditability.
• Experience with developer tools, including GitHub Copilot or comparable solutions.

Soft Skills

• Strong product judgment and business curiosity.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborative, humble, and generous approach to teamwork.
• Ability to balance experimentation, delivery urgency, and engineering discipline.

Work Shift Timing - 2:00 PM - 11:00 PM IST At Franklin Templeton, we believe your benefits should support your life, your goals, and your future. That’s why we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package designed to help you thrive both personally and professionally.

Highlights Of Our Benefits Include

• Professional development growth opportunit…