> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Lead/Staff Forward Deployed AI Engineer - Senior Vice President Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2dcb530c21606047 Citi (Citigroup Inc.) posts a vp FDE role to build for teams inside the company in New York, NY, at $176,720–$265,080 base, level with the staff+ FDE median of $225,000 across 388 postings with pay. Translate ambiguous business workflows into end-to-end agent architectures and production deployments. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Citi (Citigroup Inc.)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/citi-citigroup-inc) First seen Oct 24, 2026 · open on Eightfold as of Nov 8, 2026 **$176,720–$265,080** New York, NY Full-time Translate ambiguous business workflows into end-to-end agent architectures and production deployments. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F2dcb530c21606047&placement=top) - [View posting at Citi (Citigroup Inc.)](https://citi.eightfold.ai/careers/job/859038455794?domain=citi.com) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $177K–$265K Level with the median Midpoint $221K · median $225K This job $177K to $265K. Staff+ FDE postings, 388 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $197K to $262K, median $225K. ### The work Builds for teams inside the company Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation 4. Operations (not covered) - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: Internal teams - **Level**: Staff+ - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **10+ years** professional software engineering - **6+ years** backend/distributed systems - **2+ years** hands-on building and deploying production LLM-powered applications Background - **Software engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 2+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a staff-level role. What level are you at now? The job is in New York, NY. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: New York, NY - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Pay**: ## More like this [Citigroup](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/citigroup) ### [Lead/Staff Forward Deployed AI Engineer - Senior Vice President](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5ba8f028841a49bc) New York, NY 3w ago $176,720–$265,080 [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) ### [Lead GenAI Forward Deployed Engineer, YouTube GTM Operations](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8847cd3282bb9d75) San Bruno, CA · New York, NY · +1 more 3w ago $186,000–$269,000 [Socure](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/socure) ### [Senior AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9278b0f5eb6e8bd6) New York, NY Hybrid 5mo ago $200,000–$230,000 - [Other jobs at Citi (Citigroup Inc.) (10)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/citi-citigroup-inc) ## The job description from Citi (Citigroup Inc.) The Applied AI and Agents Factory brings together ambitious engineers to turn advanced AI capabilities into production-ready solutions. Working directly with business and technology teams, you’ll tackle complex engineering challenges, build intelligent agents and take ideas from initial concept through to live deployment. This is an opportunity to work at the cutting edge of AI engineering, developing systems that go beyond conversational tools to reason, plan and execute multi-step workflows. You’ll take ownership of the full engineering lifecycle, from agent architecture and orchestration to enterprise integration, security and observability. With a strong focus on hands-on engineering, collaboration and rapid delivery, the Factory gives you the opportunity to solve challenging technical problems, influence architectural decisions and help shape reusable tools and engineering standards adopted across Citi. The **Lead / Staff Forward Deployed Engineer** is a senior technical anchor embedded within Line of Business delivery pods. This role is responsible for driving technical discovery, architecting end-to-end agentic workflows for flagship business use cases, leading complex technical integrations with core banking backends, and mentoring engineers across the pod in software engineering excellence. ### Responsibilities - **Technical Anchor & Discovery:** Serve as the senior technical authority embedded within Line of Business squads—partnering directly with business stakeholders and domain experts to translate complex, ambiguous operational workflows into robust technical architectures. - **Agentic Workflow Architecture: **Architect, develop, and deploy production-grade agent reasoning loops and multi-agent workflows using Python, graph-based state engines (e.g., LangGraph), and enterprise agent orchestration runtimes. - **Rapid Prototyping & Iteration:** Leads rapid end-to-end prototyping sprints (generating working conversational and multi-agent prototypes within days) to validate business feasibility, user trust, and interaction ergonomics before full production buildout. - **User Experience & Co-Design:** Co-designs intuitive Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) review interfaces and feedback mechanisms with business users to ensure high user adoption, domain trust, and operational transparency. - **Custom Tool & Protocol Engineering:** Lead the design and implementation of secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, OpenAPI bridges, and gRPC/REST connectors linking autonomous agents to sensitive core banking engines, databases, and microservices. - **Advanced RAG & Context Engineering:** Architect enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, including hybrid search (dense vector + sparse BM25), semantic caching, contextual chunking, re-ranking, and knowledge graph integrations. - **Enterprise Security & Isolation:** Implement zero-trust security controls for agent execution, including mutual TLS (mTLS), OAuth2/OIDC token delegation, enterprise secret management vaults, and sandboxed container execution environments. - **Code Quality & Technical Mentorship:** Set coding standards, conduct rigorous code and architecture reviews, and actively mentor Senior (C13) and Junior/Mid (C12) engineers within the squad. - **Evaluation & Guardrail Integration: **Collaborate with the Principal Architect and FDE team to integrate automated evaluation testbeds (measuring task completion, tool call correctness, latency, and hallucinations) and enterprise safety guardrails into deployment pipelines. - **Platform Contribution:** Identify common field patterns and extract reusable agent modules, prompt templates, and integration harnesses for contribution back into core enterprise platforms. - Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citi, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency. ### Qualifications - **Total Experience:** 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 6+ years specializing in backend/distributed systems. - **Hands-On AI Experience:** 2+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying production LLM-powered applications, with proven implementation experience in modern agentic frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, ADK) or custom state-machine reasoning engines. - **Core Technical Stack:** Mastery of Python, Java, or Go, asynchronous programming (asyncio), state machines, container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift), relational/NoSQL databases, and event streaming (Kafka). - **Enterprise Integration & Security: **Proven experience integrating enterprise APIs, building secure tool-calling environments, and applying zero-trust identity delegation patterns. - Demonstrated experience in forward-deployed, customer-facing, or embedded engineering roles, with a proven ability to translate ambiguous business problems into functional software prototypes. - Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities, with excellent communication and stakeholder collaboration skills. Education: - Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience; Master’s degree preferred. ----------------------------------------------------- ### Job Family Group: Technology ----------------------------------------------------- ### Job Family: Applications Development ----------------------------------------------------- ### Time Type: ----------------------------------------------------- ### Primary Location: New York New York United States ----------------------------------------------------- ### Primary Location Full Time Salary Range: $176,720.00 - $265,080.00 In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire. ----------------------------------------------------- ### Most Relevant Skills Please see the requirements listed above. ----------------------------------------------------- ### Other Relevant Skills For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter. ----------------------------------------------------- ### Anticipated Posting Close Date: Nov 10, 2026 ----------------------------------------------------- ### Automated Processing and AI We use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate's skills and abilities with a specific job opening. Additionally, if you so choose, or consent, we can match your skills and abilities to other suitable roles at Citi. Importantly, all our hiring processes and decisions, including determining your suitability for a role, are conducted, checked, and decided by individuals. Our automated processing and AI do not involve relying on automatic or autonomous decision-making. Please refer to any Jurisdictional Considerations, with specific provisions for your country (where relevant) for further details. Illinois residents – AI Notice and Right ----------------------------------------------------- *Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.* *If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi. * View Citi’s EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster. [View posting at Citi (Citigroup Inc.)](https://citi.eightfold.ai/careers/job/859038455794?domain=citi.com) ## About Citi (Citigroup Inc.) Citi provides banking and financial products to corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals across more than 180 countries and jurisdictions. Public · 5000+ people ## Similar jobs [T. 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