Forward Deployed Engineer (53006)
Citrin Cooperman16 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Responsibilities
- Own architecture, code, deployment, monitoring, and handoff for AI-agent systems in client environments.
- Build agents, MCP servers, agent skills, integrations, data pipelines, evaluation suites, monitoring, and audit trails.
- Run technical discovery, map client workflows and systems, and translate business problems into production architectures.
- Select and integrate appropriate models and platforms, including Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS, Azure, GCP, and Salesforce Agentforce.
- Guide proofs of concept into production systems and complete client security, access-control, and data-handling reviews.
- Train client teams to operate and extend delivered systems.
- Create reusable reference architectures, starter repositories, evaluation templates, and practice playbooks.
- Review other engineers’ designs and code and communicate field lessons and platform gaps to the Practice and technology partners.
Requirements
- Five to eight years of software engineering experience, including at least one production system that can be explained in detail.
- Required client-facing technical delivery experience in consulting, professional services, or a forward deployed role.
- Deep expertise in at least one of Salesforce, AWS, Azure, GCP, Anthropic, or OpenAI APIs and agent tooling.
- Production experience with large language models, including prompt design, tool use, agents, evaluation, and diagnosing agent failures.
- Fluency in Python or a strongly typed language and working SQL.
- Experience designing APIs, data models, and integrations.
- Ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly to finance leaders, executives, and engineers.
- Willingness to travel approximately 25% of the time.
- Preferred experience includes finance and accounting operations, private equity, regulated industries, middle-market consulting, relevant Anthropic, Salesforce, AWS, Azure, or GCP certifications, MCP, agent frameworks, and cloud data platforms.
Benefits
- Travel is approximately 25% of the time.
- The role includes client-facing delivery, production ownership, and opportunities to create reusable practice assets.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Citrin Cooperman
Citrin Cooperman is a privately held professional services firm providing audit, tax, accounting, and advisory services—including transaction advisory, valuation/forensics, wealth management, and cybersecurity—to middle-market companies and high-net-worth individuals. Founded in 1979 and headquartered in New York, it operates under an alternative practice structure (Citrin Cooperman & Company, LLP and Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC) and is backed by Blackstone. The firm has 30+ offices and is a member of the Moore Global network.