Job Title: Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Location: Remote – United States
Role Overview
We are seeking a hands-on Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who can work directly with Corporate Finance leaders and technical teams to identify, design, prototype, and validate AI and Agentic AI solutions across finance functions.
The ideal candidate should have a strong combination of Finance Transformation (40%) and AI Engineering / Forward Deployed Engineering (60%) experience.
This role involves understanding business challenges, identifying opportunities for AI adoption, and rapidly building prototypes to demonstrate practical business value.
The candidate should be capable of determining whether a business problem requires an AI agent, AI skill/Copilot capability, traditional automation, deterministic solution, or no AI solution at all.
Key Responsibilities
1. AI Use-Case Discovery & Business Analysis
- Collaborate with Finance VPs, CFOs, and business process leaders to understand existing workflows and business challenges.
- Identify opportunities where AI and Agentic AI can improve finance operations.
- Translate business requirements into technically actionable AI use cases.
- Demonstrate practical AI capabilities and potential business value to stakeholders.
2. Solution Assessment & Design
- Evaluate whether AI is the right solution for specific business problems.
- Determine whether to use AI agents, Copilot solutions, AI skills, traditional automation, or deterministic approaches.
- Identify processes requiring accuracy, consistency, and reproducible results.
- Recommend alternative approaches when AI is not suitable.
3. Rapid Prototyping & Development
- Build functional AI prototypes through short development cycles.
- Execute focused development sprints ranging from one day to one or two weeks.
- Use synthetic data to test and demonstrate AI concepts where appropriate.
- Gather stakeholder feedback and refine prototypes.
- Manage multiple prototyping initiatives simultaneously.
- Support decisions to proceed, stop, or redesign proposed solutions.
4. Business & Technical Collaboration
- Work closely with senior Finance stakeholders and engineering/platform teams.
- Understand corporate finance processes, including:
- Journal Entries
- Revenue Recognition
- Treasury Management
- Financial Forecasting
- Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Document prototype outcomes and communicate recommendations.
- Support the transition of successful prototypes to production and delivery teams.
Required Experience & Skills
- Strong experience in Finance Transformation and AI Engineering.
- Hands-on experience with AI/Generative AI and Agentic AI solutions.
- Experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, AI prototyping, or solution architecture.
- Ability to translate business requirements into working technical solutions.
- Understanding of corporate finance processes and workflows.
- Experience collaborating with senior business stakeholders and technical teams.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to rapidly develop and validate proof-of-concept solutions.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- 40% Finance Transformation experience.
- 60% AI Engineering / Forward Deployed Engineering experience.
- Strong business and technical background.
- Hands-on approach to rapid prototyping and AI solution development.
- Comfortable working directly with CFOs, Finance VPs, and engineering teams.
