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# Forward Deployed - Data Scientist

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Fundamental Research Labs posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in US with no pay posted. Forward deployed Data Scientist responsible for taking NEXUS from proof of value through secure production deployment for enterprise customers. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026.

- [Fundamental Research Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/fundamental-research-labs)

First seen Apr 22, 2026 · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026

Pay not posted US Remote Full-time

Forward deployed Data Scientist responsible for taking NEXUS from proof of value through secure production deployment for enterprise customers.

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

Not posted

Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K.

### The work

Builds what the customer runs

Balance **Mostly building**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales (not covered)
2. Proof of concept
3. Implementation
4. Operations

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: External customers

- **Level**: Senior

- **Role**: Individual contributor

### What they ask for

Experience

- **2+ years** technical individual contributor experience as a data scientist or software engineer

Background

- **Software engineering**
- **Implementation and data engineering**

### Do you meet what the posting states?

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## Conditions

- **Location**: US

- **Work arrangement**: Remote

- **Employment type**: Full-time

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## The job description from Fundamental Research Labs

### About Fundamental

Fundamental is an AI research lab pioneering the future of enterprise decision-making. Our flagship model, NEXUS is the world's most powerful Large Tabular Model (LTM) - purpose-built for the structured records that contain trillions of dollars in business value. With $275m in funding from leading investors and trusted by Fortune 100 companies, Fundamental is giving businesses the Power to Predict.

At Fundamental, you'll work on unprecedented technical challenges in foundation model development and build technology that transforms how the world's largest companies make decisions. This is your opportunity to be part of a category-defining company from the ground-up. Join the team defining the future of enterprise AI.

### About the role

Fundamental is seeking a Forward deployed Data Scientist to facilitate the adoption of NEXUS and collaborate with customers to address complex technical challenges.

The Data Scientist is an integral part of our FDE team, which is dedicated to driving the successful deployment of Fundamental products and proving value over legacy baselines or net new use cases. They work hand-in-hand with customers from the Proof of Value stage to post-implementation, ensuring our solutions run securely in the client's production heartbeat.

In this role, you’ll manage customer relations involving multiple stakeholders (IT, C-suite, and data science teams) and function as a key bridge, translating field insights into our product roadmap.

### Key responsibilities

- You’ll individually help deploy into production use cases with considerable business impact, moving from "science experiments" to definitive ROI
- You’ll work on rigorous head-to-head benchmarking against client baselines (XGBoost, LightGBM), executing the work of data engineering, feature engineering, and validation
- You’ll work in collaboration with our research and product teams to translate operational pain points and data anomalies into essential inputs for the Fundamental roadmap
- You’ll be involved in technical strategy to identify the right business problems, prevent data leakage, and handle the "last mile" integration (VPC, on-prem, air-gapped)
- Your collaboration with the Sales and Solution Architect teams will help align diverse stakeholders and explain predictions to business users

### Must have

- You hold a PhD / master in CS / Math / Stats or you have equivalent deep statistical literacy
- You have 2+ years as a technical individual contributor (data scientist or software engineer)
- You have experience with containerization (Docker), orchestration, and writing performant APIs (FastAPI/Flask)
- You master the end-to-end pipeline, from framing, pre-processing, ml algorithm and validation strategies
- You have a deep understanding of data handling (PySpark, Pandas) and memory optimization
- You have demonstrated experience optimizing models for a specific business problem
- You hold strong communication skills with an ability to translate architectural nuances into clear business value

### Nice to have

- Experience with PyTorch and cloud-native ML pipelines (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Staff Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, or Staff Data Scientist
- Industry-based subject matter expertise

### Benefits

- Competitive compensation with salary and equity
- Comprehensive health coverage for you and your dependents, including medical, dental, vision, and 401K
- Paid parental leave for all new parents, inclusive of adoptive and surrogate journeys
- Relocation support for employees moving to join the team in one of our office locations
- A mission-driven, low-ego culture that values diversity of thought, ownership, and bias toward action

[View posting at Fundamental Research Labs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fundamental/cc862e89-7d13-4a6d-b15d-21703e44b7dd/application)

## About Fundamental Research Labs

Builds NEXUS, a Large Tabular Model that helps enterprises predict demand, fraud, churn, risk, and other outcomes from structured data.

Series A · 50–100 people

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