Forward Deployed Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineer

Location: New York, NY (3 days on-site)

Compensation: $160K-$200K base + 20 – 30% bonus + equity

Job Type: Permanent

Infused Solutions’ client is a fast-growing AI platform serving institutional finance clients. They automate complex analyst workflows-turning days of manual work into minutes-for some of the world’s largest financial institutions.

30% financial analyst (understand workflows intimately) + 30% product strategist (translate needs into solutions) + 40% hands-on builder (prototype and ship working AI agents)

You will:

• Shadow credit analysts at PE firms and asset managers, reverse-engineer their workflows (IC memos, deal screening, portfolio monitoring, credit risk)
• Design multi-step AI agent logic that automates those workflows
• Prototype and ship V1s in days, present to partners/C-suite
• Manage scope, drive adoption, hand prototypes to engineers for productization

You won’t:

• Build production infrastructure (that’s Product Engineers)
• Manage a team (you’re IC, hands-on)
• Sit in an office writing requirements doc (you’re embedded with clients)

Must-Haves

1. Institutional finance analyst background (4-7+ years)
   IB (credit, DCM, leveraged finance), PE/credit, or asset management. You know what an IC memo looks like and have built financial models at 2 AM.
2. Self-taught coder
   Python, SQL, basic scripting. You can prototype and automate your own workflows (Excel → Python → Lang Chain).
3. Built something with LLMs in the last 12 months
   RAG pipeline, agentic workflow, document automation-anything. You’ve shipped something real (internal tool, side project, client prototype).
4. Bridge analyst and CTO
   Translate business problems into technical requirements. Explain AI limitations to skeptical partners. Push back on scope creep.
5. Ship fast
   V1 in days, not months. You’re comfortable with “good enough to prove value” and iterate based on feedback.