Investment Data & AI Engineer (Forward Deployed)

The Carlyle Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement benefits

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Family planning benefits

Wellness programs

Job summary

The Carlyle Group seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with investment teams across Primaries, Secondaries, and Co‑Investments. You will translate complex investment workflows into scalable software, data pipelines, and AI‑enabled tools used in day‑to‑day decision making.

You will embed with deal teams, transform prototypes into production products, and help scale capabilities across GP scoring, data ingestion, and pricing workflows, leveraging cloud platforms and modern data

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant technical experience required.
• Experience in software engineering, forward deployed engineering, applied AI/ML engineering, data‑intensive product engineering, or related fields.
• Strong hands-on Python programming skills.
• Experience designing, building, and deploying production-grade applications, services, APIs, data products, or AI‑enabled systems.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into technical solutions.
• Experience with cloud environments and modern data platforms.
• Experience applying generative AI, LLMs, agents, retrieval systems, or AI‑assisted development workflows is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Embed directly with investment professionals across Primaries, Secondaries, and Co‑Investments to understand live investment workflows and opportunities for technology to improve decision‑making.
• Translate ambiguous investment and business problems into technical requirements, rapidly test solutions with users, and iterate based on feedback.
• Build applications, services, APIs, data workflows, and AI‑enabled tools that integrate into the day‑to‑day investment process.
• Own solutions from discovery through production deployment, adoption, and iteration.
• Develop understanding of manager selection, fund evaluation, portfolio construction, investment pricing, diligence, and market intelligence workflows.
• Transform analyses and prototypes into scalable workflows and durable product capabilities.

Skills

Python programming

Forward deployed engineering

AI/ML engineering

Data workflows

APIs and services

Cloud platforms

stakeholder collaboration

Ambiguous problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS/Engineering/Data Science/Finance

Concentrations in technical or quantitative disciplines

Tools

Cloud platforms

APIs

Job description

The Carlyle Group seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with investment teams across Primaries, Secondaries, and Co‑Investments. You will translate complex investment workflows into scalable software, data pipelines, and AI‑enabled tools used in day‑to‑day decision making.

You will embed with deal teams, transform prototypes into production products, and help scale capabilities across GP scoring, data ingestion, and pricing workflows, leveraging cloud platforms and modern data