AI Foundry BU Deployed Engineer

FactSet; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

FactSet is seeking an AI Foundry Forward Deployed SBU Engineer to bridge AI platform capabilities with real-world financial workflows. You will design, prototype, and deploy AI-native solutions within major business units, translating legacy apps to modern AI designs.

The role requires deep finance domain knowledge, strong AI engineering skills, and the ability to lead strategic pilots and engage clients directly.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in finance app development or trading workflows
• 10+ years software development experience
• Strong API, MCP, and tool-calling design skills
• Proficiency with Python or web development
• Experience with cloud-native development and CI/CD
• Security and governance awareness
• Ability to design AI-native workflows for institutional clients
• Familiarity with LLMs and agent architectures
• Experience with vector search / RAG
• Experience prototyping AI-powered financial solutions

Responsibilities

• Partner with Banking, Wealth, Buy-Side, and Research teams to identify AI opportunities.
• Design AI-native workflows that solve real user problems.
• Deconstruct products into primitives to fuel AI agents and workflows.
• Lead pilots, PoCs, and forward-deployed engagements.
• Develop reusable patterns to scale platform capabilities.
• Build agentic workflows using Foundry platforms, APIs, MCPs, and tools.
• Design prompts, tools, memory, and workflow architectures.
• Create deterministic, auditable workflows for institutional clients.
• Leverage evaluation frameworks to improve quality and trust.

Skills

Web development

Python

APIs

MCP implementations

Tool calling architectures

LLMs

Prompt engineering

Agent architectures

Vector search / RAG

Evaluation frameworks

Workflow orchestration

Cloud-native development

Tools

APIs

MCP

Tool calls

LLMs

Prompting

Agent memory

Knowledge graphs

Job description

FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.

At FactSet, our values are the foundation of everything we do. They express how we act and operate, serve as a compass in our decision-making, and play a big role in how we treat each other, our clients, and our communities. We believe that the best ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time, and that curiosity is the key to anticipating our clients’ needs and exceeding their expectations.

Your Team’s Impact

AI Foundry - BU Deployed Engineer

The AI Foundry Forward Deployed SBU Engineer serves as the bridge between AI platform capabilities and real-world financial workflows. This role combines deep domain expertise in capital markets with strong AI engineering skills to rapidly design, prototype, deploy, and scale AI-native solutions for specific business units and strategic client opportunities.

Unlike a traditional software engineer, this individual is expected to operate at the intersection of product, engineering, consulting, and financial workflows. They must understand how investment professionals, advisors, bankers, analysts, portfolio managers, and relationship managers work, and be capable of helping existing teams translate their applications from legacy systems to modern AI-native designs. The ideal candidate is comfortable with tackling large open-ended problems, designing agent workflows with product teams, integrating APIs and MCPs with engineers, and demonstrating solutions directly to clients.

What You’ll Do

Business Unit Solution Ownership

• Partner directly with Banking, Wealth, Buy-Side, and Research teams to identify high-value AI opportunities.
• Design AI-native workflows that solve real user problems rather than simply embedding AI into existing products.
• Deconstruct existing products and applications into key high-value primitives to fuel AI agents and workflows (APIs, MCPs / Tools, Agents, and more).
• Serve as the technical lead for strategic pilots, proofs of concept, and forward-deployed engagements.
• Develop reusable patterns that can transition from custom solutions into scalable platform capabilities.

AI Solution Development

• Build agentic workflows using Foundry platforms, APIs, MCPs, evaluation frameworks, and agent infrastructure.
• Design prompt, tool, memory, and workflow architectures.
• Create deterministic, auditable workflows suitable for institutional financial clients.
• Leverage evaluation frameworks to improve quality, repeatability, and trustworthiness.
• Prototype and validate new solutions rapidly with end users.

What We’re Looking For

Financial Markets Expertise

5+ Years experience building applications in Finance.

Strong understanding of at least one:

• Wealth Management
• Investment Banking
• Asset Management
• Buy-Side Research
• Institutional Portfolio Management

Preferred understanding of:

• Securities
• Equities
• Fixed income
• ETFs
• Mutual funds
• Alternative investments
• Portfolio analytics
• Risk analytics
• Benchmarks
• Performance attribution

AI and Technical Skills

1+ Years experience building AI-based applications.

Required:

• Web Development or Python
• APIs, MCP Implementations, and Tool Calling Architectures
• LLMs
• Prompt engineering
• Agent architectures
• Vector search / RAG
• Evaluation frameworks
• Workflow orchestration
• Cloud-native development

Preferred:

• Multi-agent systems
• Knowledge graphs
• Retrieval systems
• Fine-tuning concepts
• Agent memory systems
• AI governance frameworks

Engineering Fundamentals

10+ Years experience building software applications.

Required:

• Solution architecture
• Security and governance
• Software development lifecycle
• Production deployment experience
• CI/CD
• Containerization

Product Builder Mindset

Enjoys creating ambiguous zero-to-one solutions.

Company Overview:

FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn.

At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to characteristics protected by law.