What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forward Deployed Engineer position at Stealth?
Forward Deployed Engineer
New York, NY (Hybrid)
$200K–$325K base equity
I'm hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer for a Series A AI company building the agentic platform for hedge funds and investment managers. The platform is already live at firms managing tens of billions in AUM.
The problem you'd help solve:
Front and middle office workflows at major asset managers still rely on manual processes, fragmented data, and slow decision loops. We're building the AI-native layer that turns those workflows into production-grade agentic systems — pulling from CRMs, market data, compliance feeds, emails, and more to surface the right insight, to the right person, at the right time.
You'd be the technical lead embedded at client sites — scoping requirements directly with portfolio managers and traders, then building the workflows yourself. Not slides. Not prototypes. Production software shipping daily.
Once a deployment is working, you own the handoff and turn what worked into reusable playbooks for the next engagement.
This role isn't advisory. 80% of it is building.
You'll likely be a fit if you have:
- 4–12 years in full-stack or applied AI/ML engineering — real systems shipped, failure modes found, fixes made
- Hands-on production Python and agentic AI experience (LangChain or equivalent)
- Built with LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, and API integrations in live environments
- Client-facing experience in high-pressure settings — you know mistakes here can cost millions and you don't flinch
- Background in financial services technology: investment banking tech, hedge fund, asset manager, or AI-for-finance startup
Nice to have:
- Experience with evaluation suites and CRM integrations
- Prior FDE or embedded engineering experience (Palantir-style)
- Exposure to quant workflows, compliance systems, or trade operations
- SQL fluency and comfort working inside complex data environments
What you won't find here:
This role won't suit pre-sales engineers, solutions architects, or anyone who wants to stay advisory. It also won't suit candidates who need a roadmap committee to tell them what to build. You're the one in the room with the client — you scope it, you ship it, you own it.
The package:
- $200K–$325K base salary
- Competitive equity
- 4 days/week onsite at client site (Midtown West, NYC) 1 day remote
- Small, senior team at a company whose founding team has deep roots in both Wall Street and enterprise engineering
NYC-based or willing to relocate. Onsite requirement is non-negotiable.
Salary : $200,000 - $325,000