Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Role

This is a hands-on, customer-facing engineering role at a pre-seed AI fintech startup building automation tools for private-market operations. You will own technical delivery end-to-end, from early discovery with asset servicers and asset managers through production launch of AI-driven fund accounting workflows. Your work directly shapes both customer outcomes and the core product roadmap.

What You'll Do

• Lead the full project lifecycle for customer deployments, from initial discovery through production go-live.

• Work directly with customer operations teams to map existing workflows and identify adoption barriers.

• Convert customer processes into AI-driven, automated workflows using the platform.

• Build customer-tailored prototypes and iterate quickly based on real feedback and shifting scope.

• Feed deployment insights back into product development planning to improve the platform.

• Develop standardized approaches and reusable components from patterns observed across deployments.

What We're Looking For

• 1 to 6 years of experience shipping production software, with strong TypeScript and