AI Foundry BU Deployed Engineer

FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.

At FactSet, our values are the foundation of everything we do. They express how we act and operate, serve as a compass in our decision-making, and play a big rolein how we treat each other, our clients, and our communities. We believe that the best ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time, and that curiosity is the key to anticipatingour clients’ needs and exceeding their expectations.

AI Foundry - BU Deployed Engineer

Role Overview

The AI Foundry Forward Deployed SBU Engineer serves as the bridge between AI platform capabilities and real-world financial workflows. This role combines deep domain expertise in capital markets with strong AI engineering skills to rapidly design, prototype, deploy, and scale AI-native solutions for specific business units and strategic client opportunities.

Unlike a traditional software engineer, this individual is expected to operate at the intersection of product, engineering, consulting, and financial workflows. They must understand how investment professionals, advisors, bankers, analysts, portfolio managers, and relationship managers work, and be capable of helping existing teams translate their applications from legacy systems to modern AI-native designs. The ideal candidate is comfortable with tackling large open-ended problems, designing agent workflows with product teams, integrating APIs and MCPs with engineers, and demonstrating solutions directly to clients.

Key Responsibilities

Business Unit Solution Ownership

• Partner directly with Banking, Wealth, Buy-Side, and Research teams to identify high-value AI opportunities.
• Design AI-native workflows that solve real user problems rather than simply embedding AI into existing products.
• Deconstruct existing products and applications into key high-value primitives to fuel AI agents and workflows (APIs, MCPs / Tools, Agents, and more).
• Serve as the technical lead for strategic pilots, proofs of concept, and forward-deployed engagements.
• Develop reusable patterns that can transition from custom solutions into scalable platform capabilities.

AI Solution Development

• Build agentic workflows using Foundry platforms, APIs, MCPs, evaluation frameworks, and agent infrastructure.
• Design prompt, tool, memory, and workflow architectures.
• Create deterministic, auditable workflows suitable for institutional financial clients.
• Leverage evaluation frameworks to improve quality, repeatability, and trustworthiness.
• Prototype and validate new solutions rapidly with end users.

Required Qualifications

Financial Markets Expertise

5+ Years experience building applications in Finance.

Strong understanding of at least one:

• Wealth Management
• Investment Banking
• Asset Management
• Buy-Side Research
• Institutional Portfolio Management

Preferred understanding of:

• Securities
• Equities
• Fixed income
• ETFs
• Mutual funds
• Alternative investments
• Portfolio analytics
• Risk analytics
• Benchmarks
• Performance attribution

AI and Technical Skills

1+ Years experience building AI-based applications.

Required:

• Web Development or Python
• APIs, MCP Implementations, and Tool Calling Architectures
• LLMs
• Prompt engineering
• Agent architectures
• Vector search / RAG
• Evaluation frameworks
• Workflow orchestration
• Cloud-native development

Preferred:

• Multi-agent systems
• Knowledge graphs
• Retrieval systems
• Fine-tuning concepts
• Agent memory systems
• AI governance frameworks

Engineering Fundamentals

10+ Years experience building software applications.

Required:

• Solution architecture
• Security and governance
• Software development lifecycle
• Production deployment experience
• CI/CD
• Containerization

Product Builder Mindset

Enjoys creating ambiguous zero-to-one solutions.

What's In It For You

• At FactSet, our people are our greatest asset, and our culture is our biggest competitive advantage. Being a FactSetter means:
  • The opportunity to join an S&P 500 company with over 45 years of sustainable growth powered by the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up.
  • Support for your total well-being. This includes health, life, and disability insurance, as well as retirement savings plans and a discounted employee stock purchase program, plus paid time off for holidays, family leave, and company-wide wellness days.
  • Flexible work accommodations. We value work/life harmony and offer our employees a range of accommodations to help them achieve success both at work and in their personal lives.
  • A global community dedicated to volunteerism and sustainability, where collaboration is always encouraged, and individuality drives solutions.
  • Career progression planning with dedicated time each month for learning and development.
  • Business Resource Groups open to all employees that serve as a catalyst for connection, growth, and belonging.
• Learn more about our benefits here. Salary is just one component of our compensation package and is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, and certifications.

Company Overview:

FactSet (NYSE:FDS| NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn.

At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to characteristics protected by law.