What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forward-Deployed AI Application Engineer position at Macquarie Global Services?
Join the front-office fundamentals strategy and analytics team of Macquarie's highly successful North American Power/Gas/Emissions (NAPGE) commodity trading business, where you will be fully embedded in a fast-paced environment and your work will have an immediate, high visibility impact.
While Macquarie offers hybrid working for many of our roles, this role does require 5 days a week on-site in Houston.
At Macquarie, our advantage is bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 31 markets and with 56 years of unbroken profitability. You'll be part of a friendly and supportive team where everyone - no matter what role - contributes ideas and drives outcomes.
What role will you play?
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We are seeking a mid-to-senior level Forward-Deployed AI Application Engineer to build an AI-native analytics platform. You will architect agentic workflows that enable our commodity trading analysts to build models, tools and dashboards entirely using natural language. Most developer roles ask you to build things. This role asks you to build the system that builds things. Your success will be measured not just by the applications you create, but by how effectively you enable others to create their own.
While you'll draw on strong technical foundations in front-end frameworks and application architecture, the core of your work will be configuring AI agents (particularly Claude Code) to do the building. You'll create the skills, tools, and design standards that ensure every application the AI produces is consistent, high-quality, and deployment-ready - without requiring end users to write code or follow complex templates. You will leverage a deep understanding of AI models and training systems to anticipate points of failure (e.g. hallucinations) and implement effective guardrails based on business usage patterns.
While this role will initially focus on dashboards and other front-end analytics tools for NAPGE, it will quickly expand to more advanced applications and modeling. A key aspect of the role will be to stay abreast of the latest news and research within the rapidly evolving AI landscape and identify opportunities to expand what's possible.
What you offer
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- Deep understanding of and demonstrated experience with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar AI coding agents as primary development tools
- Strong understanding of modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Vue.js, Node.js, Svelte, Angular) - enough to architect what the AI builds, even if you're not hand-coding daily
- Familiarity with Flask, FastAPI, Django, or similar for serving applications and APIs
- Familiarity with charting and dashboard libraries (e.g., Plotly, D3.js, Recharts, Dash, Streamlit)
- Ability to design front-end systems that integrate with dynamic models, data pipelines, and APIs
- Exposure to a variety of tools, platforms, and technology stacks - we value versatility and informed opinions over deep allegiance to any single framework. A key part of this role will be to recommend and implement the most appropriate front-end frameworks, visualization libraries, and supporting technologies for our team.
We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.
What we offer
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At Macquarie, you're empowered to shape a career that's rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on eligibility criteria, include:
- 1 wellbeing leave day per year and a minimum of 25 days of annual leave
- 20 weeks' paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work and 6 weeks' paid leave for secondary caregivers
- 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
- Benefits and initiatives to support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing such as medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account and dependent day care savings account; life insurance, disability, and other insurance plans; 401(k) and short/long term disability
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program, a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services
- Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
- Recognition and service awards
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
- Reimbursement for work from home equipment
About Commodities and Global Markets
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Commodities and Global Markets is a global business offering capital and financing, risk management, market access, physical execution and logistics solutions to its diverse client base across Commodities, Financial Markets and Asset Finance.
Empowering all kinds of bright and driven people
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We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all that values and respects different experiences, skillsets and perspectives. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance.
We provide reasonable accommodation to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an accommodation, please let us know during the application process.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or protected veteran status. Macquarie takes affirmative action in support of its policy to hire and advance in employment individuals who are minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities