Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you will bridge AI capabilities with client challenges, architecting and deploying custom AI solutions while embedding with clients to understand their needs.

Responsibilities

• Embed directly with clients to gather requirements, translating ambiguous operational challenges into concrete technical architectures and delivering high-impact, AI-driven solutions with extreme ownership
• Train and deploy custom AI agents to prevent fraud and automate complex fincrime workflows across a diverse portfolio of use cases
• Utilize advanced prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and rigorous evaluation frameworks to continuously optimize AI agent performance, ensuring high accuracy, safety, and reliability
• Champion an AI-first approach across internal teams and client engagements, demonstrating the tangible business impact of advanced machine learning interventions
• Establish and evolve our AI risk metrics, the supporting datasets, and the evaluation pipelines used to measure the causal impact of deployed agents
• Collaborate tightly with internal engineering and product teams to scale custom models into production, ensuring seamless integration and optimized operational performance

Skills

• 5+ years of experience in Data Science or Applied AI
• Proficiency in Python and SQL for complex data manipulation, pipeline building, and model integration
• A creative, critical thinker with a 'get-things-done' mentality, who thrives autonomously and is obsessed with delivering measurable business value
• Exceptional ability to own the end-to-end solution lifecycle, including the ability to comfortably translate ambiguous client challenges into concrete requirements and deliver the final product

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

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