Forward Deployed Engineer - Onsite

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Agentic AI Workflow Automation for an Onsite position with a Global Financial Institution located in New York, NY. This is a 5 month contract opportunity.

As part of an enterprise-wide AI transformation program, this role will extend generative AI infrastructure into autonomous, agentic workflow automation. Structured as a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will embed directly with internal business functions, work side-by-side with divisional stakeholders to understand their workflows, and use agentic AI models to design, build, and iterate automation solutions in place. This is a hands-on, high-autonomy role that blends engineering delivery with direct business partnership, owning the full lifecycle from discovery and prototyping to deployment and iteration.

Responsibilities:

• Embed with assigned business function(s) to learn their workflows firsthand by shadowing end users, reviewing existing processes, and identifying high-value automation candidates
• Design and build agentic AI solutions using existing frameworks and foundation models, favoring rapid prototyping and fast iteration with real users
• Own delivery end to end within the embedded function: discovery, prototyping, pilot, production deployment, and ongoing iteration based on user feedback
• Translate ambiguous, often undocumented manual processes into clear automatable workflows and working solutions
• Apply human-in-the-loop controls and structured, auditable logging so every automated decision is explainable and defensible
• Continuously gather feedback directly from divisional end users and adjust solutions in near-real-time
• Feed successful patterns, reusable components, and lessons learned back to the central engineering organization
• Partner with security and compliance stakeholders as needed to clear solutions for production use

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Financial Engineering, or a related quantitative field
• 8-15 years in software engineering, with meaningful recent experience building and shipping production AI/ML or agentic systems
• Prior experience working directly embedded with a business function or client as a forward-deployed engineer, solutions engineer, or similar role
• Prior experience in a large regulated enterprise such as banking, financial services, insurance, or healthcare
• Demonstrated ability to learn a manual process from non-technical business users and translate it into an automatable workflow
• Comfortable operating with significant independence and making judgment calls on scope and design
• Strong proficiency in Java and/or Python for building and shipping production tools
• Strong SQL and data-modeling skills; comfort working against legacy enterprise data stores
• Hands-on experience using agentic AI models and frameworks (tool-calling / function-calling, multi-step orchestration)
• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation for unstructured data (contracts, policy documents, reports)
• Comfort working with vector databases and embedding pipelines (e.g., Milvus, Weaviate, Pinecone)
• Ability to integrate quickly with a division's existing systems, data stores, and internal APIs
• Cloud deployment experience, ideally AWS
• Working knowledge of human-in-the-loop design patterns and audit-by-design logging
• Fluency in model evaluation to flag when a workflow is not a good fit for automation or needs additional guardrails

Desired skills:

• Prior experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer or in a similarly embedded delivery model at a technology company
• Prior work automating workflows in internal control, risk, compliance, financial reporting, or shared-services functions
• Experience using autonomous coding or task agents as part of a delivery workflow
• Exposure to financial industry regulatory standards and how they constrain automation design
• Demonstrated comfort being the sole embedded technical resource within a business team

Pay range: $100 - $125 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20 years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

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