Forward Deployed Engineer, Finance

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Flexible spending

Health savings accounts

Life insurance

ADD

Disability

Retirement

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Infertility assistance

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Koch Capabilities Finance seeks an Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with finance teams, identifying opportunities and delivering AI-powered solutions that drive measurable business value. You will lead technical delivery, balance speed with security, and determine long-term paths for each solution, including scaling or transitioning ownership.

The role emphasizes ambiguity management, rapid prototyping with AI-assisted tools, and direct accountability for turning ideas into adopted solutions

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 building and deploying applications using languages such as Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, C#, or similar technologies.
• 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 their 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

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

C#

APIs integration

Testing

Security

Observability

Documentation

Maintainability

AI code review

Education

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, data science, finance, accounting, mathematics, or a related discipline

Tools

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

SQL

Job description

Your Job

As a Forward Deployed Engineer on the Koch Capabilities Finance team, you will work directly with finance teams to identify opportunities, build AI-enabled solutions, and deliver measurable business value.

This newly created role will accelerate how finance uses AI, automation, data, and software to improve decision-making, financial stewardship, and operational effectiveness. You will move quickly from problem discovery to working solutions, partnering with finance leaders, subject matter experts, end users, and technology teams throughout the process.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial engineer who is comfortable with ambiguity, uses AI-assisted development tools to increase speed and capability, and wants direct accountability for moving important business opportunities from ideas to adopted solutions. You will lead technical delivery while helping determine the right long-term path for each solution, whether that means scaling, integrating, transitioning ownership, or stopping work that does not create sufficient value. This role is eligible to be worked in Plano, Texas or Wichita, Kansas.

This role is not open to sponsorship or a Visa transfer now or in the future.

Our Team

Koch Capabilities Finance is global team that sits at the intersection of finance, technology, transformation, and strategy. We modernize how finance work gets done, improve decision quality, strengthen financial stewardship, scale enterprise capabilities, and create capacity for higher-value business partnership.

Our work spans planning, accounting, reporting, controls, enterprise finance applications, data, AI enablement, process transformation, and capability development. We start with meaningful business problems and combine finance expertise, technology, and new ways of working to create value across Koch.

What You Will Do

• Work alongside finance teams to understand their 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.

Who You Are (Basic 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 building and deploying applications using languages such as Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, C#, or similar technologies.
• 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.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience building solutions for finance, accounting, or other control-sensitive environments.
• Experience with financial processes such as planning, reporting, controls, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, or audit.
• Experience designing data pipelines, governed data architectures, or analytical solutions using SQL, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, or similar technologies.
• Experience designing generative AI solutions, agents, retrieval architectures, evaluation frameworks, or human-in-the-loop controls.
• Experience creating reusable engineering patterns, tooling, documentation, or guardrails that enable broader adoption.
• Experience scaling a prototype or emerging product into an enterprise solution or durable support model.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, data science, finance, accounting, mathematics, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

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Who We Are

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• flexible spending
• health savings accounts
• life insurance
• ADD
• disability
• retirement
• paid vacation/time off
• educational assistance
• infertility assistance
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance

Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).