Remote Forward-Deployed Engineer, Fintech AML/Fraud

Unit21, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + pre-IPO equity

Full medical, dental, vision for you

Unlimited PTO and generous leave

401(k)

Home office setup support

High-ownership, collaborative culture

Job summary

Unit21, Inc. is seeking a remote Forward Deployed Engineer focused on Implementation to turn signed contracts into production-ready fraud and AML programs. You will design data integrations, configure AI Agents, and manage multiple customer deployments for banks, fintechs, and crypto platforms.

You will work with real-time data, build detection logic, and ensure regulatory requirements such as SARs, CTRs, and CRR are met while coaching customer teams to run independently.

Qualifications

• This role requires 5+ years in implementation, solutions engineering, or forward-deployed engineering for B2B SaaS in fintech/regtech.
• Strong data fluency: map client schemas, identify gaps, and instruct client tech teams on changes.
• Experience turning patterns into rules and testing against real data for fraud/AML use cases.
• Hands-on with AI: configure or build LLM-based workflows or agents and validate outputs.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple implementations with tight timelines.

Responsibilities

• Own each implementation from initial convo to go-live with plan, timeline, and stakeholder comms.
• Design each client's data integration, from real-time APIs to batch files and backfill.
• Build, test, and tune fraud/AML programs end-to-end and train teams for production use.
• Train customer teams and transition live projects to Customer Success.
• Document repeatable playbooks and share learnings across projects.

Skills

Implementation lead

Data mapping

AI workflows

Customer comms

Project coordination

Tools

LLM agents

Job description

Unit21, Inc. is seeking a remote Forward Deployed Engineer focused on Implementation to turn signed contracts into production-ready fraud and AML programs. You will design data integrations, configure AI Agents, and manage multiple customer deployments for banks, fintechs, and crypto platforms.

You will work with real-time data, build detection logic, and ensure regulatory requirements such as SARs, CTRs, and CRR are met while coaching customer teams to run independently.