# Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [Maybern](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/maybern)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $230k – $260k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Python, SQL, System Design, Analytical Application Architecture, AI, Machine Learning, Snowflake, Optimization, Simulation, Mathematical Modeling
**Posted:** 2026-05-15

> Principal Forward Deployed Engineer leading client discovery, technical solutioning, and delivery for AI, forecasting, and automation engagements. Requires 10+ years customer-facing technical experience, Python/SQL/system design expertise, and strong executive presence.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Lead early-stage client discovery with non-technical executives, translating ambiguity into structured proposals, and scoping engagements across AI, forecasting, automation, decision support, and platform integration
- Own senior client relationships end-to-end, from initial discovery through production adoption, managing scope, timeline, and expectations
- Architect custom systems across AI, optimization, simulation, and decision-support workflows in collaboration with the engineering team
- Support the sales motion by lending technical credibility to pre-sales conversations and client pitches
- Identify when bespoke customer work should become reusable product capability, and mentor engineers across the team to raise the bar on technical execution

## Who You Are
- Executive Presence: You are comfortable in the room with senior, non-technical clients. You listen well, ask sharp questions, earn trust quickly, and push back when needed without losing the relationship.
- Solution Architect & Proposal Writer: You can take a vague client problem, structure it into a credible technical plan, and author a written proposal from scratch: framing the problem, the approach, the deliverables, and the value.
- Delivery Leader: You have led end-to-end engagements with meaningful complexity, owning scope, timeline, and outcomes across both technical and client-facing work streams.
- High-Standards Builder: You hold a high bar for clarity and reliability in domains where approximation isn't enough.

## Requirements
- 10+ years of customer-facing technical experience in consulting, enterprise software, or forward-deployed engineering, with a strong track record leading ambiguous client initiatives from discovery through delivery
- Deep strength in Python, SQL, system design, and analytical application architecture, with strong applied AI or ML experience
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to write proposals, scope complex engagements, and manage difficult client situations

## Nice-to-Haves
- Hands-on with the Snowflake AI Data Platform as a starting point for architecting data, analytics, and AI workflows
- Experience in finance, private markets, capital markets, fund administration, or enterprise decision systems
- Experience with optimization, probabilistic systems, simulation engines, or mathematical modeling platforms
- Experience turning bespoke client systems into reusable product or platform primitives

## Benefits
- Competitive salary + equity package
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits (Maybern covers 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums)
- HSA & FSA plans
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible PTO / sick leave
- WFH as needed
- 401k

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