AI Forward Deployed Engineer - Finance-focused (US)

Description

The company is a global, midsize contract research organization (CRO) with over 3,500 staff, working to bring new treatments for serious diseases to patients.

This is a remote role for candidates based in the US. You will work with global teams across several time zones.

The role builds AI tools that reduce manual work for finance analysts, covering close activity, financial analysis and access to financial data, while keeping governance and compliance in place.

Responsibilities

• Build AI-assisted tools for variance commentary and close checklists that draft insights from financial data and point out the main business drivers.
• Develop natural-language experiences on Databricks Genie that let analysts query governed finance data.
• Work with FP&A Analysts and Project Financial Analysts to deliver tools that make their work faster and support better financial decisions.
• Track and report how often solutions are adopted and used, and what productivity gains they produce.
• Create reconciliation support features that help finance teams while people keep ownership of controls and approvals.
• Design and ship AI-enabled applications using Databricks, Python and current LLM tooling.
• Keep AI-generated recommendations clearly separate from financial control activities so solutions meet governance requirements.
• Talk with finance stakeholders to learn their processes, close cycles, planning work and reporting needs.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on work with Databricks and building data-driven solutions.
• 2+ years of engineering LLM applications, including prompt and context engineering, retrieval, structured outputs and evaluation.
• 2+ years of Python and enough full-stack skill to ship production-ready applications.
• 2+ years working within or closely with Finance teams, with knowledge of FP&A, monthly close, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and revenue recognition basics.
• Experience with finance systems and governed financial data, such as NetSuite, Certinia and Workday Adaptive Planning.
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365 and Copilot, MLflow, Databricks Vector Search, Databricks Genie, Genie Code and/or GenieOne. CRO or pharma-services experience and SOX exposure are preferred.
• Proficiency in English.

Conditions

Remote, open to candidates based in the US.

Annual salary range for the United States of America: $121,500.00 to $240,500.00. For hourly roles, the range shows hourly rates.

The final pay falls within this range and depends on experience, performance, education and internal equity. It is not a guaranteed figure. Salary is discussed during interviews, and you can ask about pay at any point.

The company is committed to equal opportunity and pay transparency.

Benefits

• A competitive benefits package, which varies by location.