Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Core
Customer-facing engineer building data pipelines, backend services, and AI-assisted investigative tools for government agencies to combat financial crime.
Role type
Senior IC data engineer (customer delivery)
Builds
Data pipelines, backend services, and analytical solutions for government investigations
Domain
Government / Financial Crime / OSINT
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Python, SQL, data pipeline design, entity resolution, risk scoring, cloud data warehouses, Kubernetes, LLM integration, customer engagement
Preferred skills
AI tooling, graph databases, search databases, on-premises deployment
Technologies
Python, SQL, Node/TypeScript, Kubernetes, LLMs, cloud data warehouses, graph databases, search databases
Responsibilities
Own customer engagements end-to-end from discovery to delivery, identify and integrate external data sources, build data pipelines and backend services, deploy solutions into customer environments, build AI-assisted investigative tools, collaborate with R&D to share solutions
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC