Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Role

This is a founding-team 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 initial discovery with asset servicer and asset manager teams through production launch of AI-driven fund accounting workflows. Your field insights will feed directly back into the core product roadmap.

What You'll Do

• Manage the full project lifecycle for each customer engagement, from discovery through production deployment.

• 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's agent and integration capabilities.

• Build customer-tailored prototypes, iterating rapidly and adjusting scope based on real feedback.

• Surface deployment learnings and translate them into actionable input for product planning.

• Develop reusable components and standardized approaches from recurring implementation patterns.

What We're Looking For

• 1 to 6 years of production software engineering experie