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This hands-on, client-facing engineering role identifies high-value opportunities across deal flow, research, trading, portfolio management, risk, valuations, and middle- and back-office operations, then builds, deploys, and drives adoption of production solutions.\nThe Senior AI Forward Deployed Engineer operates at the Senior FDE level, requiring 5 or more years of professional software engineering experience. The role independently leads client engagements from discovery and scoping through production deployment, adoption, documentation, and handover, and mentors Associate FDEs and FDEs.\nThis role will be hybrid in New York, with regular work at client sites in the New York area and occasional travel.\nECI Description\nECI is a Modern Intelligent Service Provider serving alternative investment and banking firms across the United States, United Kingdom, APAC, and India. ECI provides infrastructure, security, operations, and AI solutions within client environments. Through the ELLA platform and technology partnerships, ECI builds and operates practical AI solutions designed for measurable outcomes, secure data handling, and continuous improvement.\nResponsibilities\nIndependently lead AI client engagements from discovery and scoping through production deployment, adoption, documentation, and handover, serving as the accountable engineering lead for the client.\nLead discovery with client leaders, operators, and technical teams to map workflows and identify where AI can save time, reduce risk, or improve quality across investment research, deal flow, trading, portfolio management, risk, valuations, fund operations, investor relations, and compliance.\nOwn engagement scope and turn business needs into prioritized, buildable use cases with clear success measures based on value, data access, risk, and implementation effort.\nArchitect, build, and deploy AI agents, integrations, and workflows using TypeScript or Python, ECI platforms, AI coding tools, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft 365, and appropriate specialist products.\nIntegrate solutions with client systems, APIs, documents, and data while addressing authentication, permissions, data isolation, audit trails, records retention, retries, and partial failures.\nDesign evaluations using client examples, verify AI-assisted code and outputs, and apply automated checks and human review before solutions reach production.\nPartner with client compliance, security, and IT teams to establish data-handling requirements, approvals, information barriers, and production controls.\nLead client enablement, train users, measure adoption and results against agreed success measures, iterate based on feedback, and document operating procedures and runbooks for handover.\nMentor Associate FDEs and FDEs through technical reviews, client delivery, and professional development; convert recurring client needs into reusable patterns, connectors, and agent skills, and share field insights with ECI product and engineering teams.\nQualifications (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities)\nFive or more years of professional software engineering experience, including experience supporting production systems.\nHands-on experience building and shipping LLM-powered features, agents, or AI-enabled workflows to production users.\nStrong programming skills in TypeScript or Python, including development of APIs, integrations, and data workflows.\nExperience with retrieval, evaluation, and guardrails for LLM applications, including work across more than one model provider.\nExperience integrating third-party systems and APIs and handling authentication, permissions, data access, and failure conditions.\nExperience using AI coding agents with the judgment to review, correct, test, and verify generated output.\nAbility to understand business processes quickly, communicate technical choices clearly to non-technical stakeholders, and lead client engagements independently and communicate effectively with executive, business, compliance, security, and technical stakeholders.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience in a client-facing engineering role and exposure to hedge funds, private equity, investment banking, asset management, fund administration, or other regulated financial-services environments.\nExperience with Azure, Azure AI Foundry, infrastructure as code such as Terraform, and Microsoft 365 technologies including Entra ID, Microsoft Graph, Teams, and SharePoint.\nFamiliarity with investment-industry systems, data, and workflows, including portfolio or order management, fund accounting, research management, market data, private-markets platforms, compliance archiving, reconciliation, or investor reporting.\nWorking Conditions\nAbility to lead client engagements independently while coordinating effectively with distributed ECI product, engineering, industry, security, and account teams.\nAbility to work regularly at client sites in the New York area and travel occasionally for business.\nAbility to manage multiple client priorities and respond flexibly to deadlines, production issues, and changing engagement needs.\nAbility to work beyond normal business hours when necessary to support client delivery, releases, or critical business cycles.\nAbility to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and other standard office technology for extended periods.\nClient onboarding may require background checks, security attestations, personal-trading pre-clearance, holdings reporting, or other controls required by the client.\nECI’s culture is all about connection - connection with our clients, our technology and most importantly with each other. In addition to working with an amazing team around the world, ECI also offers a competitive compensation package and the base salary range for this role is $175,000-$215,000, plus flexible PTO, health benefit eligibility the first of the month, life insurance, pet insurance, 401K and so much more! If you believe you’d be a great fit and are ready for your best job ever, we’d like to hear from you!!\nLove Your Job, Share Your Technology Passion, Create Your Future Here!\nECI is an equal opportunity employer. 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