Forward Deployed Engineer

Taktile • New York, NY

10d • Hybrid

About The Position

Taktile empowers financial institutions to transform into truly AI-native organizations. We’re growing rapidly with enterprise customers across banks and insurance companies, and we’re looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer. If you're passionate about tech and AI, stay up to date on the latest AI developments, and have extensive experience with Python, SQL, REST APIs, you'll thrive here.

Requirements

• 2+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work.
• Strong technical background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science.
• Write and review production-grade Python and SQL, and have strong command of REST API design and integrations.
• Excel at breaking down complex problems and making quick, well-informed decisions even under pressure.
• Build strong relationships with both technical and business stakeholders at all levels, driven by curiosity and a customer-centric mindset that helps you understand their needs and solve their challenges.
• Collaborative, curious, and low-ego - work well across product, engineering, and GTM teams, and bring a genuine desire to understand customers' businesses.
• Open to a hybrid work model and can work from our NYC office at least three days per week.

Nice To Haves

• 1+ years of experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Solution Engineer, Implementation Specialist or an equivalent position within a B2B SaaS company.
• Experience in building AI applications within financial services
• Experience in applying and optimizing statistical and machine learning models to solve business problems.
• Experience with at least one of the major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Responsibilities

• Lead complex AI-driven Taktile deployments in production. You own technical delivery across multiple deployments, from scoping high-impact Agentic AI use cases to stable production.
• Apply your technical expertise, problem-solving skills and creativity to help organizations address real-world challenges. Your day could include designing solution architectures, developing decision logic and deploying production-grade Generative AI agents, or aligning with key customer stakeholders - all while ensuring an outstanding experience and rapid time to value for Taktile’s customers.
• Effectively scope work, sequence delivery, and proactively remove blockers, while making thoughtful trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality to ensure successful and timely project delivery.
• Partner with Taktile’s product management team to turn your understanding of customer needs into actionable product insights, directly influencing the evolution of Taktile’s product roadmap.
• Develop reusable resources, best practices, and tools to share your expertise and help scale the forward deployed engineering function across the organization.

Benefits

• Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you and help you grow.
• Make an impact and meaningfully shape an early-stage company.
• Experience a truly flat hierarchy and communicate directly with founding team members.
• Learn from experienced mentors and achieve tremendous personal and professional growth.
• Get access to a self-development budget you can use to e.g. attend conferences, buy books or take classes.
• Use the equipment of your choice including meaningful home office set-up.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed