Job Title: Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Remote – United States
Work Authorization: s (USC) / s (GC)
Job Summary
We are seeking a hands-on Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) with a strong combination of Finance Transformation and AI Engineering experience. The ideal candidate will work directly with Corporate Finance leaders, including CFOs, Finance VPs, and technical teams, to identify, design, prototype, and validate AI and Agentic AI solutions across finance functions.
The candidate should have the ability to understand business challenges, identify opportunities for AI adoption, and rapidly develop prototypes that demonstrate measurable business value.
The ideal candidate will be able to assess whether a business problem requires an AI Agent, Copilot, AI Skill, traditional automation, deterministic solution, or whether AI is not the appropriate approach.
Key Responsibilities
1. AI Use Case Discovery & Business Analysis
- Collaborate with CFOs, Finance VPs, and business process leaders to understand existing workflows and business challenges.
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI and Agentic AI across finance operations.
- Translate business requirements into actionable technical use cases.
- Demonstrate AI capabilities and potential business value to stakeholders.
2. Solution Assessment & Design
- Evaluate business problems to determine whether AI is the right solution.
- Assess and recommend appropriate approaches, including AI Agents, Copilot solutions, AI Skills, traditional automation, and deterministic solutions.
- Identify processes requiring high accuracy, consistency, and reproducibility.
- Recommend alternative technical approaches when AI is not suitable.
3. Rapid Prototyping & Development
- Build functional AI prototypes through rapid 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 continuously refine prototypes.
- Manage multiple prototyping initiatives simultaneously.
- Evaluate prototype outcomes and recommend whether to proceed, stop, or redesign.
4. Business & Technical Collaboration
- Work closely with senior Finance stakeholders and engineering/platform teams.
- Understand and support 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 Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in Finance Transformation and AI Engineering.
- Hands-on experience developing AI, Generative AI, and Agentic AI solutions.
- Experience in Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE), AI prototyping, or Solution Architecture.
- Ability to translate business requirements into functional technical solutions.
- Strong understanding of corporate finance processes and workflows.
- Experience working with senior business stakeholders and technical teams.
- Proven ability to rapidly develop and validate proof-of-concept solutions.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Strong combination of Finance Transformation and AI Engineering experience.
- Approximately 40% Finance Transformation and 60% AI Engineering / Forward Deployed Engineering background.
- Strong business and technical acumen.
- Hands-on experience with rapid prototyping and AI solution development.
- Comfortable engaging directly with CFOs, Finance VPs, and engineering teams.
Work Authorization
Location: Remote – United States
Employment Type: Full-Time
