# Forward Deployed AI Engineer

**Company:** [Sardine](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sardine)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $175k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, SQL, Data Science, Applied Ai, Prompt Engineering, Fine-Tuning, Machine Learning, AI Agents, Model Evaluation, Data Pipelines
**Posted:** 2026-06-11

> Forward Deployed AI Engineer embedding with clients to architect, train, and deploy custom AI agents for fraud prevention and compliance workflows. Requires 5+ years in data science/applied AI, Python/SQL proficiency, and end-to-end solution ownership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Embed directly with clients to gather requirements, translating ambiguous operational challenges into concrete technical architectures and delivering high-impact, AI-driven solutions with extreme ownership.
- Train and deploy custom AI agents to prevent fraud and automate complex fincrime workflows across a diverse portfolio of use cases.
- Utilize advanced prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and rigorous evaluation frameworks to continuously optimize AI agent performance, ensuring high accuracy, safety, and reliability.
- Champion an AI-first approach across internal teams and client engagements, demonstrating the tangible business impact of advanced machine learning interventions.
- Establish and evolve our AI risk metrics, the supporting datasets, and the evaluation pipelines used to measure the causal impact of deployed agents.
- Collaborate tightly with internal engineering and product teams to scale custom models into production, ensuring seamless integration and optimized operational performance.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Data Science or Applied AI
- Proficiency in Python and SQL for complex data manipulation, pipeline building, and model integration
- Creative, critical thinker with a "get-things-done" mentality, who thrives autonomously and is obsessed with delivering measurable business value
- Exceptional ability to own the end-to-end solution lifecycle, including the ability to comfortably translate ambiguous client challenges into concrete requirements and deliver the final product

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with advanced prompt engineering and fine-tuning
- Experience establishing AI risk metrics and evaluation pipelines

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