Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

This role is a hands-on Forward Deployed AI Engineer sitting with commercial users to ship agentic tools that solve real workflow problems. You will own technical design and delivery from prototype to production, and feed clear requirements back to foundational engineering teams so that what gets built actually gets used.

Responsibilities

• Embed with commercial teams to understand workflows, constraints, and business objectives, and identify high-value opportunities for AI solutions.
• Translate business problems into technical requirements, solution designs, and delivery plans for agentic tools.
• Extend the internal GenAI platform through new integrations, data connectors, MCP servers, tool-calling, and domain-specific skills.
• Apply LLMs, RAG, NLP, time-series forecasting, and optimization to pricing, supply and demand signals, trade flow analysis, and operational problems.
• Communicate requirements, constraints, and reusable patterns back to foundational AI and platform engineering teams.
• Present capabilities, assumptions, and limitations clearly to traders and senior management, and raise the bar through code review, evaluation design, and mentoring.

Required Qualifications

• Degree in computer science, statistics, mathematics, data science, or a related quantitative field.
• Fluency in Python for applied AI and engineering, with strong software engineering practices including version control, testing, and code review.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in software engineering, AI engineering, machine learning, data science, or a related hands-on technical role.
• Practical understanding of generative AI, including prompt engineering, RAG, tool use, agentic workflows, model evaluation, and responsible AI.
• Proficiency with modern GenAI orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or equivalent, and experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Excellent written and verbal communication with both technical teams and commercial stakeholders.

Schedule

• Monday–Friday, in-office 5 days a week

Location

Houston, TX 77027