Principal Forward Deployed Engineer – Applied AI Focus

The role

You will lead the technical design and delivery of complex banking AI engagements. This involves architecting end-to-end agentic systems and integrating them into client systems.

What you will do

• Lead the technical design and delivery of complex banking AI engagements
• Partner directly with client engineering, security, and architecture teams
• Architect end-to-end agentic systems including data ingress, model orchestration, evals, observability, and security
• Decide what to build on Titan's platform versus bespoke builds or roadmap pushes
• Mentor mid-level FDEs
• Influence platform direction by codifying learnings into reusable assets and patterns
• Represent Titan's engineering credibility to banking CTOs, CISOs, and architects

Required qualifications

• Senior-level full-stack with a strong backend spike
• Experience with distributed systems, API design, secure integration patterns, and infrastructure fluency
• Deep experience building production-grade agents using LangChain, LangGraph, DeepAgents, and model-provider SDKs
• Fluency in agent search patterns including agent file search, vector RAG, and vectorless RAG
• Strong working knowledge of AI security frameworks
• Hands-on experience designing and running evals
• Familiarity with training and fine-tuning loops
• Process orchestration and automation at scale
• Comfort owning architectural decisions across the full stack of a production AI system
• Experience shipping systems at meaningful scale or under meaningful constraint
• Strong client-facing presence

Nice to have

• Banking or regulated-industry experience

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Meaningful pre-Series A equity (senior-level grant)
• Unlimited PTO
• 100% of employee medical, dental, and vision premiums covered by Titan

About the company

Titan is building the AI platform for banking. The team comes from Goldman Sachs, KeyBank, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.