Forward-Deployed AI Engineer for Finance Solutions

Koch; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Koch Capabilities Finance is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with finance teams, identify opportunities, and deliver AI-enabled solutions. You will move quickly from problem discovery to working software, balancing speed with security and reliability.

Based in Plano, TX or Wichita, KS, you will lead technical delivery, design end-to-end workflows, and mentor teams on AI-assisted development, testing, and governance to maximize business value.

Qualifications

• Experience translating ambiguous business problems into software, automation, data, or AI-enabled solutions.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders and end users to discover requirements and validate outcomes.
• Experience integrating applications with APIs, databases, enterprise systems, or cloud services.
• Experience applying engineering practices such as testing, security, observability, documentation, and maintainability, including critically reviewing AI-generated code and outputs.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside finance teams to understand decisions, data, controls, exceptions, and desired business outcomes.
• Identify root causes and determine how AI, automation, analytics, data, or software can improve end-to-end workflows.
• Design, code, integrate, test, and deploy working solutions using real workflows and data while balancing speed, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Establish success measures, observe how solutions are used, gather evidence, and iterate based on adoption, quality, productivity, risk reduction, capacity creation, and decision impact.
• Build appropriate documentation, tests, monitoring, reusable components, and technical guardrails. Partner with finance and technology leaders to determine the right long-term path for each solution.
• Use AI-assisted development while independently evaluating outputs for accuracy, security, compliance, maintainability, and business risk.
• Create reusable patterns and tools, share learning, and help finance and technology partners identify and deliver future opportunities.

Skills

Ambiguous problems

Stakeholder discovery

APIs integration

Engineering practices

AI outputs review

Pattern creation

Generative AI

Education

CS/SE degree

Tools

SQL

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

Job description

Koch Capabilities Finance is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with finance teams, identify opportunities, and deliver AI-enabled solutions. You will move quickly from problem discovery to working software, balancing speed with security and reliability.

Based in Plano, TX or Wichita, KS, you will lead technical delivery, design end-to-end workflows, and mentor teams on AI-assisted development, testing, and governance to maximize business value.