AI-First Forward Deployed Engineer

Apply; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision care

Life insurance

Mental wellness coverage

Fertility and growing family support

Flex Time Off

Paid family leave

Retirement savings

Home office stipend

Professional development stipend

Job summary

Juniper Square is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to collaborate with GP clients and a senior engineer across discovery, scoping, design, build, deployment, and ongoing operation of AI-enabled solutions. You will be in the room with clients, shaping requirements and delivering production-ready software that leverages AI-assisted development.

You will own components end-to-end, from prototype to production rollout, while aligning with a world-class engineering team.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience shipping production software, with hands-on experience building AI-enabled applications
• Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business needs into requirements and deliver working software against them
• Full-stack engineering capability across data, services, user interfaces, and the infrastructure underneath them
• Working knowledge of a major cloud provider, containers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and production monitoring, with the comfort to deploy and debug your own work
• Comfort working directly with external clients or customers — you can be trusted in the room, not just behind the code
• Fluency with AI-assisted development, paired with the depth to understand, debug, and defend everything you ship
• Developing product judgment: defining scope for a first release, prioritizing, and knowing when something is done
• Excellent written communication across requirements, documentation, and client-facing updates, and the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Work with GP clients — CFOs, COOs, heads of technology, investor relations leads, and the fund accountants, IR associates, and deal teams who will use what you build — to find the workflows where custom agents create real leverage
• Support discovery and help translate ambiguous business problems into clear requirements, scope, and acceptance criteria
• Carry the components you own through their full lifecycle, from prototype and client validation through hardening, deployment, and rollout to production
• Design and build agentic systems: retrieval and context design, tool and MCP integration, orchestration, evaluation harnesses, and the observability and cost controls that keep them reliable in production
• Work hands-on across client-edge solutions, and partner with Juniper Square’s platform and product engineering teams where the work touches core systems
• Make engineering trade-offs that hold up under real client commitments, finding speed through reuse rather than through shortcuts on reliability, security, or maintainability
• Help operate deployed solutions through adoption, including post-launch support and iteration on user feedback
• Produce documentation, train users, and support rollouts to drive adoption

Skills

AI-enabled apps

Full-stack engineering

Client communication

Requirements translation

Documentation

Tools

Cloud provider

Containers

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Production monitoring

Job description

Juniper Square is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to collaborate with GP clients and a senior engineer across discovery, scoping, design, build, deployment, and ongoing operation of AI-enabled solutions. You will be in the room with clients, shaping requirements and delivering production-ready software that leverages AI-assisted development.

You will own components end-to-end, from prototype to production rollout, while aligning with a world-class engineering team.