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<p style="text-align: center">Forward Deployed Engineer </p>
<p style="text-align: left"><strong>Location:</strong> New York, NY (3 days on-site)</p>
<p style="text-align: left"><strong>Compensation:</strong> $160K-$200K base + 20 – 30% bonus + equity</p>
<p><strong>Job Type:</strong> Permanent</p>
<p>Infused Solutions’ client is a fast-growing AI platform serving institutional finance clients. They automate complex analyst workflows-turning days of manual work into minutes-for some of the world’s largest financial institutions.</p>
<p>30% financial analyst (understand workflows intimately) + 30% product strategist (translate needs into solutions) + 40% hands-on builder (prototype and ship working AI agents)</p>
<p><strong>You will:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Shadow credit analysts at PE firms and asset managers, reverse-engineer their workflows (IC memos, deal screening, portfolio monitoring, credit risk)</li>
<li>Design multi-step AI agent logic that automates those workflows</li>
<li>Prototype and ship V1s in days, present to partners/C-suite</li>
<li>Manage scope, drive adoption, hand prototypes to engineers for productization</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>You won’t:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Build production infrastructure (that’s Product Engineers)</li>
<li>Manage a team (you’re IC, hands-on)</li>
<li>Sit in an office writing requirements doc (you’re embedded with clients)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Must-Haves</strong></p>
<ol>
<li><strong> Institutional finance analyst background (4-7+ years)</strong><br /> IB (credit, DCM, leveraged finance), PE/credit, or asset management. You know what an IC memo looks like and have built financial models at 2 AM.</li>
<li><strong> Self-taught coder</strong><br /> Python, SQL, basic scripting. You can prototype and automate your own workflows (Excel → Python → Lang Chain).</li>
<li><strong> Built something with LLMs in the last 12 months</strong><br /> RAG pipeline, agentic workflow, document automation-anything. You’ve shipped something real (internal tool, side project, client prototype).</li>
<li><strong> Bridge analyst and CTO</strong><br /> Translate business problems into technical requirements. Explain AI limitations to skeptical partners. Push back on scope creep.</li>
<li><strong> Ship fast</strong><br /> V1 in days, not months. You’re comfortable with “good enough to prove value” and iterate based on feedback.</li>
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