CoinDesk

AI Forward Deployed Engineer

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5 hours ago
Hong Kong, Hong Kong or London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Partner with business counterparts to identify and scope operational bottlenecks and build tools to address them.
  • Work autonomously across Customer Success, Exchange Operations, Trading, and Custody by gathering requirements, securing data access, and building trust with stakeholders.
  • Prototype and ship production AI systems, including RAG pipelines, conversational interfaces, workflow automation, and internal agents.
  • Use appropriate tools such as n8n, Make, Zapier, Lovable, or custom Python to deliver solutions quickly.
  • Run workshops and training sessions to help non-technical teams adopt the tools.
  • Define success metrics, track outcomes, and communicate the impact of shipped solutions.
  • Maintain production quality through evaluations, error handling, observability, documentation, SOPs, and checklists.

Requirements

  • Portfolio of shipped projects, personal tools, public demos, GitHub repositories, writeups, Loom walkthroughs, or live URLs.
  • Demonstrated ability to move quickly with LLMs, coordinate multiple coding agents, and match model capabilities to task complexity.
  • Production experience addressing the gap between demos and reliable systems, including evaluations, error handling, and observability.
  • Process-driven approach with strong documentation, SOPs, and checklist practices.
  • Ability to independently turn ideas into working software and communicate results in terms relevant to business partners.
  • Strong communication skills for translating technical work into business value.
  • 5+ years of formal experience in a role where the candidate shipped tools used by people.
  • Experience with vector databases such as Qdrant, Pinecone, or pgvector is preferred.
  • Familiarity with SQL and relational databases is preferred.
  • Docker or containerization experience is preferred.
  • Exposure to blockchain or trading concepts is helpful but not required.

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Forward Deployed
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