Forward Deployed Engineer - AI for Finance

Search Chain Partners; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Search Chain Partners seeks a senior Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy our AI-for-finance platform at banks and PE firms, building production-grade workflows and data pipelines in Python and TypeScript.

You will own technical outcomes at flagship accounts, collaborating with deal teams, CTOs and heads of innovation, while addressing security and compliance requirements in regulated environments. This role blends engineering excellence with client-facing leadership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' software engineering experience at a tier 1 technology company, AI lab or high-performance finance firm.
• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or similar from a leading university.
• Strong full-stack skills in Python and TypeScript, with cloud infrastructure experience (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs: RAG, agents, tool use and evaluation.
• Confident in front of senior clients; able to explain trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• High ownership and speed: you ship and take responsibility for client outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and build production-grade agentic workflows and data pipelines for client deployments.
• Lead technical deployments at bank and PE clients from scoping to go-live.
• Connect the platform to client systems, data rooms, CRMs and market data providers.
• Write clean, well-tested code in Python and TypeScript; ensure security and compliance.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

AWS

GCP

Azure

LLMs

Client communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Leading university credential

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL

Job description

Forward Deployed Engineer - AI for Finance

The company

Our client is a fast-growing AI for Finance company building agentic AI products for banks and private equity firms. Its platform automates the high-value, analyst-heavy work behind deals, investment decisions and client coverage.

The business is backed by one of Europe's leading venture capital firms and is scaling quickly across London, Europe and the US. It sells to some of the most demanding buyers in financial services, and its team combines senior finance practitioners with top-tier AI engineers.

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The role

Forward Deployed Engineers sit between the product and the client. You will work directly with banks and PE firms to deploy the platform, build custom agentic workflows on top of it, and turn what you learn in the field into product.

This is a senior, hands-on engineering role with real commercial exposure. You will own technical outcomes at flagship accounts, working alongside deal teams, CTOs and heads of innovation at some of the world's leading financial institutions.

• Reports to: Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
• Location: London, hybrid, with client travel
• Type: Full-time, permanent

Key responsibilities

Deploy and build

• Lead technical deployments at bank and PE clients, from scoping through go-live
• Build production-grade agentic workflows, integrations and data pipelines on top of the core platform
• Connect the platform to client systems, including data rooms, CRMs, document stores and market data providers
• Write clean, well-tested code in Python and TypeScript

Work with clients

• Partner with deal teams, investment professionals and client engineering teams to understand their workflows in depth
• Run technical workshops, demos and pilots that move accounts from trial to enterprise contract
• Handle security, compliance and infrastructure requirements typical of regulated financial institutions

Shape the product

• Feed field insight back to product and core engineering, and turn repeatable custom work into platform features
• Evaluate and improve LLM performance on real client tasks, including prompting, retrieval and evaluation frameworks

About you

This role is for exceptional engineers only. The bar is set by the calibre of the team and the clients it serves.

• 5+ years' software engineering experience at a tier 1 technology company, AI lab or high-performance finance firm. Examples include Palantir, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, Databricks, Jane Street or top-quartile venture-backed scale-ups
• Top academic record: a degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or similar from a leading university such as Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, ETH Zurich, EPFL, MIT, Stanford or equivalent
• Strong full-stack skills in Python and TypeScript, with production experience on cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs: RAG, agents, tool use and evaluation
• Confident in front of senior, demanding clients; able to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
• High ownership and speed: you ship, and you take responsibility for the client outcome

A real bonus

• Forward deployed, solutions engineering or client-facing engineering experience, ideally at Palantir or a similar model
• Domain knowledge of investment banking, private equity or capital markets workflows
• Founder or early-stage startup experience

What's on offer

• Top-of-market base salary plus meaningful equity
• Work on hard, high-stakes problems with the world's leading banks and PE firms
• Real ownership from day one and a fast path to technical leadership
• A team of exceptional engineers and finance practitioners at a pivotal stage of growth