Forward Deployed Engineer II (Remote, US)

Sayari

9h•$160,000 - $180,000•Remote

About The Position

Sayari is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer II to serve its largest government and Fortune 100 customers as they adopt an agentic platform for investigation and risk workflows. The role owns customer engagements end to end, from technical evaluations and proofs of concept through production deployment and ongoing account support. The engineer scopes customer problems and builds solutions on Sayari’s platform using customer data and workflows, working within customer environments on high-stakes problems. The position combines engineering, strategy, and operations. It serves as the primary technical authority for assigned accounts and as a conduit between customer-facing work and Sayari’s core engineering team, translating field insights into platform capabilities. The role also sets delivery standards and reviews the work of other engineers on its accounts. The position involves 25–30% combined travel and in-office time. The listed pay range is $160,000–$180,000 USD.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in a client-facing technical role, such as forward deployed engineering, sales engineering, or technical consulting.
7–8+ years of total experience in software engineering and/or solutions consulting.
A record of owning strategic deployments end to end, from technical win through production.
Production Python experience, including the data manipulation ecosystem such as Pandas.
Deep experience with SQL and hands-on experience integrating and reasoning about REST APIs.
Experience building and deploying on AWS, GCP, or Azure, using containers such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience across multiple technology stacks, with an interest in working across different languages, frameworks, and systems.
Daily use of AI-assisted coding tools such as Cursor, Claude, or similar.
Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and convincingly to engineers, analysts, and senior leaders.
Ability to solve ambiguous problems, enter new environments, and learn new technologies quickly.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience building agentic or LLM systems, including orchestration, tool use, retrieval, and evaluation.
Experience with sovereign, air-gapped, or government cloud deployments.
Experience with modern data stacks such as Snowflake or Databricks and workflow orchestrators such as Airflow or Prefect.
Experience with graph data technologies and their query languages.
Exposure to machine learning, natural language processing, or entity resolution.
Experience in high-stakes domains such as anti-money laundering and financial crime, supply chain risk, or national security.

Responsibilities

Design and run demos, proofs of concept, and trials on customers’ data; define success criteria with customers and meet them.
Build agents, tools, and integrations on Sayari’s agentic platform within customer environments, taking solutions from trial to production.
Develop production Python, SQL, and integrations with customer persistence layers and analytics stacks.
Serve as the primary technical authority for assigned accounts and brief executives, analysts, and mission owners on outcomes.
Determine which solutions should be bespoke, reusable, or incorporated into the platform; document capability gaps and drive them into the roadmap.
Set delivery standards and review work by other engineers on assigned accounts.