Principal Forward Deployed Engineer – Applied AI Focus
remoteprincipal$180K – $220K
via Ashby
About this role
THE ROLE
This is the deep-end engineering role on the FDE bench. You're not just configuring on the platform — you're building off it, into it, and around it. On a typical engagement, you're working side-by-side with the client's own engineering team: integrating into their loan origination system, their data warehouse, their identity stack, their CI. You're the technical authority in the room.
You're still forward deployed, still co-owning the strategic outcome, still client-facing. But your edge is depth — system design, distributed architecture, secure integration, and the ability to ship production code under banking-grade scrutiny.
WHAT YOU'LL DO…
What we'd score you on
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Skills match
For this role: less, langchain, openai, claude, teams
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Level fit
This role is principal-level. We check your trajectory against it.
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Domain experience
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Recency
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Location fit
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