Associate Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Role

• This role is for early-career engineers who want to learn how AI gets deployed in the real world.
• You'll join each engagement paired with a Senior FDE.
• Every engagement begins from a Blueprint that has already shipped for a customer in that industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Learn a client's function from the inside and help redesign it alongside your senior FDE and the Forward Deployed Executive.
• Ship production code for LLM applications, agentic workflows, and retrieval and extraction pipelines.
• Build the evaluation harness before the feature: define what working means, then measure it.
• Take systems to production on AWS, and feed what you learn back into the Blueprint.
• Drive adoption and build credibility with the client's engineers and operators.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Python or TypeScript
• Claude Code basics
• AWS/Azure/GCP basics
• Containers
• CI/CD
• Cloud delivery on AWS

Qualifications

• A degree in computer science, engineering, or another STEM field.
• 0–2 years of experience; internships, co-ops, and research count.
• You built projects where you integrated AI as part of your SDLC (internship, research, or hackathon entry) that you can walk us through in depth.
• Curiosity and speed of learning: pick up unfamiliar subjects quickly and ask good questions, especially about how real businesses work.
• Good communication skills: ability to explain complex technical subjects to non-engineers.
• Willingness to spend real time learning a client's job before you write code.

Great If You Have

• AI/ML coursework or foundations
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Interest or coursework in financial services, insurance, healthcare, or asset management
• Data pipelines or SQL
• Classical ML or MLOps (PyTorch, SageMaker, MLflow)
• Infrastructure-as-code
• Open-source contributions, hackathon projects, or public writing on applied AI
• Claude certification or AWS certification

What You'll Learn

• How to deploy LLM and agentic systems into regulated production (banks, insurers, health systems).
• How to build evaluation harnesses: defining what "working" means, then measuring it.
• Claude Code in production, working toward Claude certification.
• A real business domain (insurance underwriting, healthcare revenue cycle, asset management).
• How to work with clients: their operators, engineers, and executives.

Your First 90 Days

• Onboarding into Blueprints, delivery stack (Claude Code, AWS), and how to build evals, plus a primer on your first client's industry.
• Join an engagement with your senior FDE, shadow the operator, then do the work yourself.
• Own a scoped part of a production system, with code review and your senior FDE beside you.

What You'll Get

• A senior FDE paired with you on every engagement, a named mentor accountable for your growth.
• Regular feedback and a clear path to Forward Deployed Engineer.
• Frontier delivery work across Cowork Activation, Agentic SDLC, and Blueprint Activations in Financial Services and Healthcare.
• Real production experience in regulated industries.
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI and cloud solutions.
• Full-time model.
• Unlimited Vacation policy.
• Generous health, vision, and dental insurance.
• 401(K) matching plan.
• Salary base range: $120-145k.

How We Hire

• Technical task to demonstrate programming fundamentals, problem-solving skills, and ability to work with AI-powered solutions.
• Intro conversation to discuss background, projects, and career aspirations.
• Task discussion about your approach, next steps, and evaluation methods.
• No LLMs are permitted during the task discussion.