Forward Deployed Engineer - AI Transformation

Role overview

Forward Deployed Engineer - AI Transformation at Arcesium

<p>Arcesium is building a Corporate AI Transformation team, and you will be one of its few first members.

Success for this role isn’t just measured by shipping a prototype or completing a project, it’s measured by putting solutions into production and driving meaningful adoption and impact.</p>

<p>The ideal candidate brings strong engineering fundamentals, a builder’s mindset, and a passion for using AI to improve how work gets done.

Responsibilities

• You will take ambiguous business problems, break them into solvable workflows, design the agent architecture, and ship production-grade internal tools.

Employment details

• Location: Bengaluru, Hyderabad

Application details

• This is not a traditional backend or application engineering role.

About the employer

• <p>Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions.
• <li>Build agents, workflow automations, and internal applications on top of Arcesium's corporate data systems, and enterprise tools.</li>
• <p>Arcesium's Personal Data Privacy Notice for Candidates is linked <a href="https://cdn.builder.io/api/v1/assets/8279000be2e444159cf06fa2a0d2c664/2026-07-16-personal-data-privacy-policy-candidates.pdf">here</a>.</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p> </p>
• If something seems off or you're contacted by an unexpected third party, please reach out to us at <a href="mailto:careers@arcesium.com">careers@arcesium.com (US/UK),</a> <a href="mailto:careers-india@arcesium.com">careers-india@arcesium.com (India) </a>or <a href="mailto:careers-europe@arcesium.com">careers-europe@arcesium.com (Portugal/Sweden)</a>. </p>

Additional role details

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• <h2><strong>Company Overview</strong></h2>
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• We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow’s challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes. </p>
• <p>Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation.
• Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities.
• We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.</p></div><p><strong>Job Overview</strong></p>
• As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will work closely with business, operations and engineering teams to identify high-impact internal use cases and convert them into working AI solutions that run in production.
• You will operate like a builder, systems engineer, and product thinker rolled into one.
• You will work with Arcesium's corporate systems, data assets, and AI tech stack to build agents and automations that reduce manual effort, improve decision-making, and scale repeatable work.
• This is a high-impact role for someone who wants to build AI solutions that meaningfully improve enterprise processes.</p>
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• <p><strong>What you'll do</strong></p>
• <li>Partner with business and functional teams to find the opportunities: workflow automation, AI-assisted decision-making, and work that agents can take on.</li>
• <li>Understand complex operational processes across teams and convert them into structured problem statements, system designs, and technical workflows.</li>
• <li>Rapidly prototype using LLMs, agent frameworks, MCPs.
• Get something small in front of real users early and iterate on their feedback.</li>
• <li>Design agent architectures that complete business tasks reliably.</li>
• <li>Work with engineering, business, and security teams to take prototypes to move prototypes into scalable, maintainable solutions.</li>
• <li>Evaluate build-vs-buy options for AI workflows and identify the right technical approach for each use case.</li>
• <li>Create reusable components, templates and playbooks that accelerate this work across the firm.</li>
• <li>Define the KPIs, measure the impact, and drive adoption.</li>
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• <div><strong>What you'll need</strong>
• <li>6+ years of hands-on engineering experience, with a track record of shipping systems that other people depend on.</li>
• <li>Strong engineering fundamentals across APIs, data, and systems design.</li>
• <li>Experience building internal tools or automation systems for business teams.</li>
• <li>The ability to understand a platform quickly, build on top of it, and turn business context into reliable technical solutions.</li>
• <li>Systems thinking.
• You can hold a whole workflow in your head, see where it is structurally inefficient, and redesign it rather than automate it as it stands.</li>
• <li>A bias to ship iteratively.
• You get a thin version into real use, learn from it, and improve it, instead of waiting for a complete design.</li>
• <li>Credibility with senior business and technology leaders, and the ability to say hard things clearly to both.</li>
• <li>Comfort with ambiguity and ownership.
• You will pick your own problems as often as you are handed them.</li>
• <p><strong>Recruiting Security<br></strong>Emails from genuine Arcesium recruiters who are employees of the company will always come from the @arcesium.com domain.
• In some cases, you may also be contacted by independent search firms engaged to recruit on our behalf; emails from their employees should always come from their firm's applicable domain.
• We'll never ask for your banking information or any payment as part of the recruiting process.
• <p><em>Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer.</em></p></div>