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Forward Deployed Engineer
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Transformative AI Platform | Junior Forward Deployed Engineer | London
About the Company:
Our partner is a pioneering AI-native audit platform, revolutionising the accounting and audit sector by providing cutting-edge technology, strategic capital, and growth initiatives to accounting firms. Headquartered across San Francisco, New York, and London, they empower firms to scale efficiently by automating time-intensive mechanical tasks with advanced AI. This frees up audit professionals to concentrate on critical judgment and client relationships, significantly enhancing audit quality and efficiency. They are now actively seeking a talented Junior Forward Deployed Engineer to join their dynamic team in London.
About the Role:
This is an exceptional opportunity for an ambitious graduate or early-career software engineer to join a rapidly growing FinTech company at the intersection of AI and financial services. As a Junior Forward Deployed Engineer, you will be instrumental in directly engaging with accounting firm partners, deploying and customising to seamlessly integrate disparate tooling and automate complex audit methodologies. This unique role blends software engineering, solutions architecture, and client-facing consulting, allowing you to adapt our partner's AI-native platform to real-world client needs. You will directly influence the product roadmap by translating client insights into actionable feedback for the core engineering team.
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Responsibilities:
- Deploy and customise the AI-native platform for accounting firm clients, integrating fragmented tools.
- Design and implement API integrations with various financial systems like CCH, Suralink, and QuickBooks.
- Develop solutions for ingesting, parsing, and normalising inconsistent financial data from diverse sources.
- Apply LLM application development techniques, including prompting and structured output generation.
- Contribute to agentic systems and tool-use frameworks for audit automation.
- Implement RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) over client document corpora.
- Gather client feedback and insights to directly influence the core product roadmap.
Requirements:
- Solid foundational software engineering skills, preferably with Python proficiency.
- Experience or strong interest in API integration for business systems.
- Understanding of data engineering principles: ingestion, parsing, and normalisation.
- Exposure to large language models (LLMs) and their application development.
- Ability to handle unstructured data (PDFs, spreadsheets) and convert to structured formats.
- Natural aptitude for client interaction and building professional relationships.
- Eagerness to quickly learn and adapt to a regulated domain like accounting or audit.
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Compensation and benefits:
- Competitive salary.
- Opportunity to join a fast-paced, early-stage AI FinTech innovator.
- Direct exposure to cutting-edge AI technologies and their real-world application.
- Significant career growth potential within a rapidly scaling global company.
- Contribute to shaping product direction based on direct client engagement.
- International travel opportunities to collaborate with global teams and clients.
- Work in a dynamic London-based team, with potential for hybrid flexibility.
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