Forward Deployed AI Engineer

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About the Company

Our client is a Series A fintech building AI-native infrastructure for financial operations. Their platform helps financial institutions automate complex, data-heavy workflows through AI, enabling customers to streamline operations, improve decision-making, and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Backed by experienced founders and growing rapidly across Europe, they're looking for engineers who thrive at the intersection of product, data, AI, and customer impact.

• Location: Remote (European Time Zone)
• Employment Type: Full-time (EOR)
• Level: Mid-Senior Level
• Work Authorization: Must be based within the European Time Zone (EOR provided)

About the Role

We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer who owns customer outcomes, not just code.

This is a hybrid role combining software engineering, AI, data engineering, product thinking, and customer collaboration. You'll work directly with enterprise customers, build production-grade integrations and AI workflows, rapidly deliver proof-of-concepts, and turn customer needs into scalable platform capabilities.

If you enjoy solving ambiguous problems, building production systems, and seeing your work create immediate business impact, you'll thrive here.

What You'll Do

Customer Delivery;

• Own enterprise customer implementations from discovery through production deployment
• Work directly with customer teams to understand business challenges and define technical solutions
• Build production-ready AI workflows, integrations, and data pipelines

Product Engineering;

• Develop scalable integrations, APIs, automations, and AI-powered workflows
• Build features that initially solve customer-specific needs before evolving into core platform capabilities
• Continuously improve platform scalability through automation

Data & AI;

• Design and implement data pipelines and integrations
• Build evaluation frameworks for AI systems
• Ensure outputs remain explainable, reliable, and production-ready

Customer Success;

• Build rapid Proofs of Concept (PoCs) for enterprise prospects
• Help customers achieve measurable ROI quickly
• Translate technical concepts into business value for non-technical stakeholders

What We're Looking For

Must Have;

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong Python and SQL skills
• Experience building production software end-to-end
• Strong data engineering background (ETL, pipelines, data integrations)
• Customer-facing experience working directly with enterprise clients
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Comfortable working independently in ambiguous environments
• Strong ownership mindset with a focus on customer outcomes

Nice to Have;

• Forward Deployed Engineer, Customer Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Product Engineer experience
• Experience with Databricks, Spark, Snowflake, or dbt
• Experience building AI/LLM applications (LangChain, LangGraph, RAG, Vector Databases)
• Startup or founding engineer experience
• FinTech or enterprise SaaS background

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity
• Fully remote work within the European Time Zone
• Employer of Record (EOR) employment
• High ownership and direct customer impact
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technologies
• Collaborative, high-performance engineering culture
• Career growth in one of Europe's fastest-growing AI fintech companies

If you enjoy building AI-powered products, working directly with enterprise customers, and turning complex technical challenges into measurable business outcomes, we'd love to hear from you...