Forward-Deployed AI Engineer for Asset Management

IFS

Itasca (IL)

Hybrid

USD 145,000 - 180,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Life insurance and disability benefits

Tuition assistance

Community involvement and volunteering

Job summary

IFS Copperleaf helps the world’s largest asset-intensive organizations decide where to invest billions in capital to deliver the most value, using AI-powered decision analytics. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you’ll work across Sales, Product, R&D, and Implementations to stand up products on customer data and prototype near-production solutions rapidly.

You own the technical outcomes from discovery to production adoption, turning customer requirements into actionable value and shaping roadmaps

Qualifications

Customer-facing and commercial ability.
Abstraction and reuse.
AI and agentic engineering.
Familiar with enterprise integrations in regulated utility market.
Domain in asset-intensive industries or capital planning.
Travel up to ~50%.

Responsibilities

Lead discovery, scoping, architecture, implementation, evaluation, productionization, adoption, and handoff for strategic customer solutions. Deploy and prove value.
Build smallest safe prototype to test hypotheses within deal timelines and productionize where appropriate.
Engineer for security, reliability, observability, and integration with customer architectures.
Develop solution specifications with the customer and update as the solution evolves.
Collaborate with Product and R&D to translate validated patterns into roadmaps and accelerators.