
Forward Deployed Engineer
Nevis Wealth3 hours ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level
Responsibilities
- Own the technical side of enterprise deployments from initial scoping through go-live and expansion.
- Serve as the customer’s main technical point of contact alongside engineering, operations, and leadership teams.
- Translate customer workflows into systems Nevis builds, configures, and automates.
- Design and deliver integrations and data flows in partnership with internal engineering teams.
- Configure, deploy, and tune AI agents and automated workflows for production customer processes.
- Build prototypes and demos to demonstrate potential solutions quickly.
- Diagnose and resolve technical issues in live deployments.
- Partner with Deployment Strategists on commercial relationships and account growth.
- Feed field learnings into the product roadmap.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, technical implementation, or a similar customer-facing engineering role at a high-growth technology company.
- Strong engineering skills with fluency in Python and SQL and comfort working across systems, APIs, and messy real-world data.
- Production experience with LLMs and agentic tooling.
- Ability to prototype quickly, iterate, and operate effectively in ambiguous environments.
- Strong judgment and precision when working with customer data and numerical outputs.
- Exceptional communication skills with non-technical stakeholders.
- STEM degree from a top university or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- Willingness to travel and work onsite with customers.
- Prior experience in wealth management, financial services, or fintech is preferred.
- Familiarity with the US RIA landscape is preferred.
- Enterprise-scale experience with data integration, pipelines, or systems migration is preferred.
- Hands-on familiarity with LLM-powered tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or similar is preferred.
Benefits
- 15 days of annual leave and bank holidays.
- Private medical insurance.
- Competitive salary and benefits package, including company equity.
- Opportunity to work with a high-calibre founding team and shape a fast-growing business.
- Opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven platform transforming wealth management.
About Nevis Wealth
Nevis is a purpose-built AI platform that helps financial advisors and their teams automate administrative workflows end-to-end.