# Staff Applied AI Engineer

Forward Financing is a financial technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts with team members throughout the United States, Dominican Republic, and Canada. The company is on a mission to unlock the capital that fuels small businesses across America. Recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In Boston and certified as a Great Place To Work®, Forward is investing in its employees, technology, and customer experience - with long-term success in mind every step of the way. Role Overview The Staff Software Engineer - Applied AI will architect and develop systems, tools and agents that leverage existing foundational AI models and deliver impactful AI-powered solutions. This role requires an expert generalist with deep technical skills who can integrate AI capabilities across diverse technology stacks and platforms. The engineer will work in a fast-paced innovation lab environment driving test-and-learn experiments, focusing on system design, scalability, and seamless AI service integration. You will be empowered to drive change by translating business needs into technical implementations that unlock business potential. You will be part of an innovation team that will be tasked w

- **Id**: 3664083
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/forward-financing-staff-applied-ai-engineer-2>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-09T19:57:49Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T05:29:44Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 60
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8319
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Parental leave, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 176044
- **Name**: Forward Financing
- **Domain**: forwardfinancing.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/forward-financing>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 14
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 180000
- **Max**: 240000
- **Currency**: CAD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 171791

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Ruby** — Optional: no
- **AWS Bedrock** — Optional: yes
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes
- **Snowflake** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 60

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T04:57:38Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 18
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.652
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 60
- **Expected fill days**: 14
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 171791
- **Is top pay**: no

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