Schonfeld

Forward Deployed Engineer

Schonfeld
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Base Salary

$200k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with portfolio managers, researchers, corporate teams, and other stakeholders to define and prioritize requirements.
  • Design and implement agentic AI-powered workflows that automate manual processes and surface relevant information for business decisions.
  • Develop agents, skills, prompts, workflow templates, and tailored customizations.
  • Own solutions end-to-end from requirements gathering through production, user acceptance testing, and post-launch iteration.
  • Feed successful patterns back to the AI Platforms team as reusable assets and contribute to code quality and development practices.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with Python in finance, including work with investment professionals.
  • Experience with AWS cloud services, Kubernetes-driven deployments, GitHub Actions, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience building and shipping software directly with non-engineering users and iterating based on feedback.
  • Ability to work with messy real-world data including documents, filings, emails, market data, and reference data.
  • Product sense, including requirements gathering, feature prioritization, roadmap ownership, and strong communication with non-technical stakeholders.
  • Preferred experience developing agentic AI applications, harnesses, MCP servers, workflows, AI agents, RAG pipelines, or agentic coding tools such as Claude Code.
  • Finance experience with investment professionals is required for investment-facing roles and valued for other roles.

Benefits

  • The role is available across US and EMEA offices, including a London-based option.
  • The company provides learning and educational offerings, internal networks, external partnerships, and service initiatives.
  • The role may include a performance bonus and competitive benefits package.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBAWSGitHub ActionsKubernetesPython

Categories

Forward Deployed
Schonfeld

About Schonfeld

1,001-5,000 employees

Schonfeld is a privately held, multi-manager hedge fund that allocates capital to internal and external portfolio managers across quantitative, fundamental equity, tactical trading, and discretionary macro/fixed-income strategies. The firm manages money for institutional and other sophisticated investors and supports teams with proprietary technology, infrastructure, and risk analytics. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in New York, it operates globally with an investing footprint spanning five continents.

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