Remote Forward‑Deployed Financial Engineer – AI Platform

Datarails; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Meaningful equity

401(k) with match

Healthcare (medical, vision, dental)

PTO & holidays

Life insurance

Job summary

Datarails is seeking a Forward Deployed Financial Engineer to deliver AI transformation engagements for existing customers. You will work with customer teams to translate business needs into deployable AI-powered solutions, ensuring secure integrations, reliable hosting, and scalable implementations.

In the Platform focus, you will own deployment within customer environments, build reusable components, and collaborate with Product, R&D, and Customer Success to drive measurable value for finance

Qualifications

• Production experience in Python or TypeScript, with SQL and REST APIs, and at least one major cloud.
• Experience integrating with business systems through their APIs, and handling authentication and secrets properly.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business and technical constraints into clear, defensible recommendations.
• A product-oriented mindset and system-level thinking, with an interest in building solutions that may evolve beyond a single customer use case.
• Comfort working independently, managing projects, and taking ownership through to handoff.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Product, R&D, Customer Success, and other cross-functional teams.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a willingness to experiment, learn quickly, and solve problems creatively.

Responsibilities

• Own how customer solutions are deployed and run: integrations, authentication, secrets, hosting, monitoring and the release process.
• Build internal tooling, templates and reusable components that shorten delivery time and raise the quality floor across the team.
• Build and deliver customer-facing solutions, including AI skills, routines, workflows, applications, and agents.
• Join discovery sessions with customers to understand their systems, data and constraints, and turn those into a deployable design.
• Take ownership of projects from recommendation through development, delivery and handoff.
• Work directly with customers throughout the engagement, translating business requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Engage customer IT and finance teams in change management, so what we build is adopted and stays running.
• Build prototypes and products that address immediate customer needs while identifying opportunities for broader reuse.
• Partner closely with Datarails Customer Success, Product and R&D teams to troubleshoot challenges, communicate customer requirements, and influence product development.
• Identify recurring customer needs that could evolve into scalable platform capabilities.
• Clearly explain technical concepts, tradeoffs, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Document solutions, learnings, and repeatable approaches that can improve future customer engagements.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

SQL

REST APIs

Cloud experience

Tools

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

Datarails is seeking a Forward Deployed Financial Engineer to deliver AI transformation engagements for existing customers. You will work with customer teams to translate business needs into deployable AI-powered solutions, ensuring secure integrations, reliable hosting, and scalable implementations.

In the Platform focus, you will own deployment within customer environments, build reusable components, and collaborate with Product, R&D, and Customer Success to drive measurable value for finance