Forward-Deployed Engineer – Strategic AI

Role: Forward-Deployed Engineer – Strategic AI

Location: Remote (U.S.)

Experience: 15–20 Years (Including 2+ Years in AI)

About the Role

We're looking for aForward-Deployed Engineer to join ourStrategic AI team.

• Develop creative solutions which utilize LLMs at scale, while remaining cost effective (including model selection, token allocation budgeting, and AI governance).
• Build enterprise AI for accounting, audit and tax workflows: documents and financial statements review, evidence extraction, and document classification.
• Utilize document intelligence to extract information with clarity, precision and detail.
• Build RAG ingestion pipelines that extract structure from unstructured sources (PDFs, scans, forms, financial documents).
• Run evaluations: LLM-as-a-Judge, Direct Preference Optimization, and human evaluation, to measure efficacy and improve accuracy of LLM generation.

Our Stack

• Azure
• Python
• React
• Typescript
• Jinja
• Django
• Postgres
• pgvector

Requirements

• Significant experience in prompt engineering, RAG, evaluation, and LLM failure modes (hallucination, grounding, context management).
• Full stack experience; UI / API / DB and Back End experience.
• Claude Code and GitHub CoPilot coding experience (auto coding to specs).
• Strong experience in Python, AI and agentic frameworks (any of the following: LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Google ADK, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with vector databases and embedding-based retrieval (e.g., any of the following: Open Search, Azure AI Search, pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate).
• Azure and Cloud Services experience (containers, APIs, CI/CD, monitoring).
• Excellent communication skills; you can explain technical tradeoffs to partners, executives, and practitioners alike.

Nice-to-Have

• Graph RAG and/or Doc Intelligence experience.
• Experience with CPA, tax, and/or audit-based applications.
• Knowledge of accounting and/or tax procedures and standards (e.g., GAAP, GAAS, PCAOB, IFRS, IRC).
• Willingness to travel occasionally to customer or team sites.