Job Details:
Job Title: Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 6+ Months Contract
Position Summary:
We''re looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to join client''s AI and optimization team to help solve real-world challenges facing society and businesses across different industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, utilities, retail, and financial services.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you are passionate about solving problems that make a difference to people, business, and society. You will play a crucial role in identifying and developing innovative advanced analytics solutions & services to support business outcomes. In this position, you will be working in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment to solve customer problems through data, using best-of-breed open source and proprietary technologies.
This position is within the Professional Services team where you will work alongside other data scientists, engineers, and software developers to build production-ready solutions. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working in a flexible manner depending on the maturity of the project.
About the position
A successful candidate will perform the following:
- Collaborate with our clients and internal stakeholders to understand business processes, identify opportunities, and propose approaches to challenges in a consultative manner
- Design, develop and lead the implementation of cloud or on-premises analytics solutions
- Clearly and objectively communicate progress, results, and insights to clients
- Investigate, define, select, and promote the use of processes, tools, frameworks, and best practices for delivering data-driven analytics and AI solutions
- Share ideas and expertise with colleagues in a collaborative team environment
Qualifications
- Master’s or PhD Degree in a quantitative field such as engineering, operations research, computer science, or data science
- Experience working with software development tools including Git
- Experience working in an Agile development environment, including participation in sprints, stand-ups, and retrospectives
- Proven ability to communicate complex concepts and insights verbally and in writing to colleagues and clients with varying degrees of technical knowledge
- Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Organized, articulate, team player, open to collaborative workstyles and able to manage multiple deliverables for different projects at any given time
- Familiarity and willingness to work in cross-cultural and geo-diverse teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Consulting or experience in a client-facing role
- Experience with Palantir Foundry or a comparable platform
- Experience in Data Science using machine learning frameworks and packages such as Scikit-learn, PyTorch, and HuggingFace
- Experience building generative AI solutions leveraging large language models such as Cohere
- Experience with relational databases, SQL, and data modelling
- Experience in designing and building cloud-based data solutions using serverless and event-driven architectures
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