Forward Deployed Engineer — Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Job Title: Forward Deployed Engineer

Experience: Min 8+ Years

Location: Washington DC (100% onsite, 5 days a week)

Visa: NO Dependencies on VISA

Budget: Open for now

Employment Type: FTE

Duration: Long term

Role Overview

Embed with banks, payment providers and fintechs to turn their hardest problems, from fraud and false declines to reconciliation and compliance, into production-ready AI, data and software solutions. You write the code, own the outcome and shape our product.

Key Responsibilities

• Own delivery end to end: from discovery and success metrics to production go-live.

• Shape the solution: turn ambiguous client problems into clear architectures, roadmaps and scoped use cases.

• Build production systems: services, data pipelines and integrations with payment platforms.

• Deploy AI and agents: fraud and risk models, dispute automation, reconciliation agents.

• Accelerate with AI: use AI assistants and automation to speed delivery, picking the best tool for the job.

• Engineer for compliance: PCI DSS, data privacy and auditability by design.

• Champion the customer: be the client's trusted partner, responsive, accountable and focused on their success.

• Sell and ideate with leadership: co-create AI strategy with senior executives, pitch solutions and grow the account.

Technical Skills

• Software Engineering: Python, Java or Go; APIs and microservices; Kubernetes; AWS/GCP/Azure

• Data Engineering: SQL, Spark/Databricks, Snowflake; streaming pipelines; Workflow Automation

• AI / ML: Statistics, DIPP Analytics; Fraud & Risk Modeling (XGBoost, PyTorch); MLOps;

• Agentic AI: RAG, tool calling, multi-agent orchestration (LangGraph, MCP); evals and guardrails

• Payments: Card networks, ISO 8583/20022, ACH, RTP, SEPA, SWIFT; settlement; PCI DSS, KYC/AML

Qualifications

Required

• 6+ years shipping production software; 3+ in a single industry across functions / horizontals

• Hands-on across backend, data and ML/LLM systems

• Track record of client-facing delivery to production

• Clear communicator from engineers to Leadership Stakeholders

• Builds with AI tools daily; quick to adopt new ones

Preferred

• Built fraud, disputes or reconciliation platforms at a PSP, bank or network

• Shipped LLM agents in a regulated environment

• Prior Forward Deployed Engineer or Data Science role experience

• Experience with payment hubs or core banking (FIS, Fiserv, ACI)