Forward Deployed Engineer — Data Engineering & GenAI

Forward Deployed Engineer — Data Engineering & GenAI

Location: San Jose onsite

Contract

Job Description:

• 8+ years of data engineering or software engineering experience, ideally with large-scale financial or transactional data

• Strong SQL skills, with hands-on BigQuery (or equivalent modern data warehouse) experience

• Proficiency in Python and/or Java for pipeline development and automation

• Experience with GCP (BigQuery, Cloud Composer/Airflow, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, or equivalents)

• Hands-on experience building with LLMs — prompt engineering, function/tool calling, or RAG pipelines

• Understanding of ETL/ELT design, data modeling, and performance tuning at scale

• Excellent communication skills — able to translate ambiguous business asks into concrete technical specs (data or AI-based)

• Comfort working directly with non-technical stakeholders (ops, compliance, finance) and adapting quickly to their domain

• High tolerance for ambiguity, shifting priorities, and production firefighting

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building with Claude, OpenAI, or similar LLM APIs in production or internal-tool contexts

• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) — building or configuring MCP servers/skills that connect LLMs to internal tools

• Experience with vector databases and embedding-based search for RAG applications

• Experience with financial reconciliation logic (PDA/CASH/VDA/SDA-type matching, or equivalent)

• Prior exposure to AI adoption/usage analytics, cost monitoring, or slot/performance optimization at scale

[email protected] | (469) 351-8138