Forward Deployed Engineer
AI summary of the role
Forward Deployed Engineers embed with investment, corporate, operational, quant, or engineering teams to identify, build, and productionize AI solutions that automate real workflows.
What you’ll do
- Build and productionize AI-powered solutions with business stakeholders
- Design continuous agentic workflows that analyze market, security, filing, email, and reference data
- Develop agents, prompts, skills, workflow templates, and portfolio-manager customizations
- Own delivery from requirements through production, UAT, and post-launch iteration
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of professional Python software engineering experience in finance with investment professionals
- Experience with AWS services, Kubernetes deployments, GitHub Actions, and modern CI/CD
- Experience shipping software directly with non-engineering users and iterating from feedback
- Experience handling documents, filings, emails, market data, and reference data
Technologies
Python · AWS S3 · Amazon OpenSearch · Amazon DynamoDB · Kubernetes · GitHub Actions · Claude Code · MCP servers · Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
About Schonfeld Strategic Advisors
Multi-strategy hedge fund managing $19B+ for institutions globally across quantitative, fundamental equity, tactical trading, and discretionary macro strategies.
Private Late · 1000–2000 people
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