Rowspace
Forward Deployed Engineer
$150K–$275K
New York City · On-site · Full-time · Posted Apr 20, 2026
- Experience
- 2–5+ years as a software engineer or in a technical customer-facing role; ideally at a company where you shipped directly to customers.
About the job
Own post-sale technical customer relationships by building and optimizing integrated data workflows, then turn successful solutions into platform improvements.
What you'll do
- Build customer-specific integrations, data pipelines, and workflows; identify evolving needs and opportunities.
- Debug and optimize retrieval quality, LLM performance, and data ingestion in production.
- Surface customer needs to product and engineering, productize effective solutions, and create scalable engagement playbooks.
What they ask for
- Proficiency in Python and SQL, with the ability to work across the stack and with messy real-world data.
- Familiarity with AI/ML concepts including RAG, embeddings, LLMs, and retrieval systems.
- Strong customer focus, communication skills, and ability to independently build and troubleshoot solutions.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with financial services and investors’ use of data.
Pay
$150K – $275K (base salary)
Tools
Python, SQL, RAG, embeddings, LLMs
AI focus
Debug and optimize retrieval quality, LLM performance, and retrieval systems; the role does not train models.
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