FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER (FDE) AGENTIC AI

HIRING NOW | FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER (FDE) AGENTIC AI We are looking for a highly experienced Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to build and deploy Agentic AI workflow automation for a leading global financial services organization.

Location: New York, NY

Work Mode: 100% Onsite Contract: 5 Months

Industry: Financial Services

Role: Forward Deployed Engineer Agentic AI

Experience: 8 15+ Years

About The Role This is a hands-on Forward Deployed Engineering role where you will work directly with internal business teams to identify manual, high-value workflows and transform them into production-ready Agentic AI automations .

Rather than simply receiving requirements and handing off designs, you will embed directly with business functions , understand their processes firsthand, rapidly prototype solutions, deploy them, and continuously improve them based on real-world user feedback.

You will own the full lifecycle discovery design prototype production iteration .

Key Responsibilities Embed directly with business functions to understand workflows, processes, and pain points.

Identify and prioritize high-value opportunities for AI-powered workflow automation .

Design and build Agentic AI solutions using existing foundation models and agent frameworks.

Develop solutions involving tool calling, function calling, multi-step reasoning, and agent orchestration .

Translate ambiguous, undocumented manual processes into practical, automatable workflows.

Own delivery from discovery and prototyping through production deployment and continuous improvement .

Work directly with non-technical business stakeholders and iterate solutions based on real user feedback.

Implement human-in-the-loop controls, audit logging, explainability, and governance for regulated environments.

Build RAG solutions for unstructured enterprise data including contracts, policies, reports, correspondence, and other documents.

Integrate AI solutions with existing enterprise systems, databases, APIs, and internal platforms.

Work closely with security and compliance teams to prepare solutions for production.

Develop reusable components and patterns that can be adopted by other teams and business functions.

Required Technical Skills Software Engineering 8 15+ years of software engineering experience

Strong Java and/or Python Strong SQL & data modeling Experience working with enterprise/legacy data systems

Agentic AI / GenAI Hands-on experience building and deploying production AI/ML or Agentic AI systems Agent frameworks and foundation models

Tool Calling / Function Calling

Multi-step Agent Orchestration

RAG / Retrieval-Augmented Generation Embeddings & Vector Databases

Experience with Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus , or similar technologies

Cloud & Integration AWS/cloud deployment experience

REST APIs and enterprise integrations

Ability to integrate quickly with existing enterprise systems and data platforms

Experience building lightweight monitoring for accuracy, usage, and reliability Governance & Compliance Human-in-the-loop AI patterns

Audit-by-design logging

Model evaluation and AI quality assessment

AI guardrails and responsible automation

Experience working in regulated environments

IDEAL CANDIDATE

We’re Particularly Interested In Candidates Who Have Experience As Forward Deployed Engineer

AI/ML Engineer

GenAI Engineer

Agentic AI Engineer

Solutions Engineer

AI Solutions Architect

Senior Software Engineer AI/ML

Experience working directly with business teams, clients, or internal stakeholders is highly valuable.

Domain Experience Experience in regulated industries such as:

Banking

Financial Services

Insurance

Healthcare

is strongly preferred.

Experience automating workflows within Risk, Compliance, Internal Controls, Financial Reporting, or Shared Services is a major plus.

WHAT MAKES THIS ROLE DIFFERENT?

This isn’t a traditional ticket-driven engineering role.

You Will Work directly with business users

Discover automation opportunities yourself

Build Agentic AI solutions rapidly

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