Praxent

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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14 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Base Salary

$194k - $224k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own technical execution of client engagements, including building, integrating, and shipping production systems on time and at quality.
  • Lead client discovery conversations, translate executive problems into architectures, and communicate technical decisions to business and technical stakeholders.
  • Choose and defend architecture patterns, integrations, and tradeoffs within client constraints.
  • Guide Forward Deployed Engineers, review their work, and improve engineering quality.
  • Deliver production-grade evaluations, guardrails, observability, and documentation that support handoff and audit readiness.
  • Integrate AI systems with legacy and governed systems and work with risk, compliance, and security stakeholders.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience shipping production software, including hands-on delivery of LLM and agentic systems.
  • Experience with RAG, agent frameworks, vector stores, evaluation, and monitoring in real environments.
  • Client leadership experience, including discovery meetings, difficult scoping decisions, and executive communication.
  • Hands-on full-stack production software experience, primarily with Python; .NET or Node are acceptable substitutes, with React or Next.js on the front end.
  • Depth across the software stack and a major cloud, with sound architecture judgment under real-world constraints.
  • Ability to lead a small engineering team and communicate decisions clearly to technical and business stakeholders.
  • Strongly preferred: experience in banking, lending, or payments, including working with risk and compliance partners and completing AI model-risk or security reviews in regulated organizations.

Benefits

  • Remote work is available from specified U.S. states, with no permanent corporate office workplace.
  • Full-time base salary is targeted at $194,000-$224,000 plus benefits.
  • 15 days of PTO to start, 9 U.S. holidays, 5 wellness days, and paid parental leave.
  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, accident, and wellness program benefits are provided.
  • IRA with up to 3% match.
  • Praxent is an Anthropic and Microsoft partner, offering partner-level enablement and access to both ecosystems.

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About Praxent

51-200 employees

Praxent is a financial technology consulting and software development firm that modernizes platforms and builds AI-enabled products for banks, insurers, lenders, payments companies, and wealth platforms. Its services span application development, cloud/data platform modernization, UX, and custom AI agents, delivered as fee-based projects and programs. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the privately held firm is an Anthropic Select Services Partner focused on regulated financial services.

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