Forward Deployed AI Engineer

The role

You will embed with clients to translate operational challenges into technical architectures and AI-driven solutions. You will train and deploy custom AI agents and intelligent workflows into production environments.

What you will do

• Embed with clients to gather requirements and deliver AI-driven solutions.
• Train and deploy custom AI agents to prevent fraud and automate fincrime workflows.
• Utilize prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and evaluation frameworks to optimize AI agent performance.
• Champion an AI-first approach across internal teams and client engagements.
• Establish and evolve AI risk metrics, datasets, and evaluation pipelines.
• Collaborate with internal engineering and product teams to scale custom models into production.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Data Science or Applied AI
• Proficiency in Python and SQL for complex data manipulation, pipeline building, and model integration.
• Creative, critical thinker with a get-things-done mentality.
• Ability to thrive autonomously.
• Ability to own the end-to-end solution lifecycle and translate ambiguous client challenges into concrete requirements.

Benefits

• Generous compensation in cash and equity
• Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
• Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
• Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
• Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Canada specific
• 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific
• MacBook Pro delivered to your door
• One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.
• Monthly meal stipend
• Monthly social meet-up stipend
• Annual health and wellness stipend
• Annual Learning stipend

Before you apply

• You'll need to keep a home base in the country you're hired in.

About the company

Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Their integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations.