Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Financial Services- NYC

$185,000–$300,000New York, NYHybridSeniorToday

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About the job

Forward Deployed Engineer leading end-to-end deployment of production AI systems for banks, asset managers, insurers, and other regulated financial institutions.

Summary written from the posting.

What you’ll do

Design and ship production AI systems across financial workflows
Lead discovery, scoping, delivery, and post-production adoption
Define launch controls, audit artifacts, benchmarks, and acceptance thresholds
Evaluate model and system quality against financial workflow benchmarks

What you’ll bring

5+ years of software, ML engineering, or technical deployment experience
Customer-facing ownership in financial services or another regulated industry
End-to-end ownership of complex AI or data-driven production systems
Production coding experience with Python, JavaScript, or comparable stacks

Technologies

Python · JavaScript · LLMs · generative models · AI evaluation · guardrails · observability · reference architectures

About OpenAI

Builds frontier AI models (GPT series) and ships them as ChatGPT consumer/enterprise products plus a developer API for the broader AI ecosystem.

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Pay and conditions

Posted pay: $185,000–$300,000
Pay details
$185K – $300K • Offers Equity
Location: New York, NY
Work arrangement: Hybrid
Employment type: Full-time
Experience requirements: 5+ years

The work, as we read it

Kind of work: Production engineering

Our reading of the posting, not the employer’s words.

How this compares

The middle of this range is $243,000, above the $198,000 median for the 1,730 US FDE postings that state one. Half of those sit between $162,000 and $230,000.

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