Kepler AI

Kepler AI

Forward Deployed Engineer

New York City

Sponsorship not specified$30k-$50kDetected 181 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLCI/CDdbtData EngineeringNLPLLMsAI OrchestrationResearchLeadershipProblem SolvingMentoringPublic Speaking

About the role

  • You'll be the technical architect of our most strategic client relationships.
  • You'll embed directly with our lighthouse customers, sophisticated financial firms and research organizations, to deploy, customize, and extend Kepler for their specific workflows.
  • This is the engineering role that lives our core principle,

Responsibilities

  • you own client outcomes while building the platform that serves the entire market.
  • AI: Model-agnostic by design. We currently use Claude and GPT. The model is the replaceable part.
  • Deep architectural reviews and guidance on system design.
  • Learn by building production systems that power real financial research.
  • We own customer outcomes while building a product company.
  • If you notice a problem, you own it by making sure it doesn't fall through the cracks.
  • We design for critical workloads from day one.
  • "Build anything" budget - dedicated funding for whatever tools, libraries, datasets, or infrastructure you need to solve technical challenges, no questions asked.
  • Forward-Deployed with Product DNA: We own customer outcomes while building a product company.
  • Extreme Ownership: If you notice a problem, you own it by making sure it doesn't fall through the cracks.

Requirements

  • You know what it feels like when the plan changes twice in a day and the work still has to ship.

Nice to have

  • We're backed by investors who built the modern AI and data stacks, plus the builders of iconic commercial businesses.
  • This includes founders of OpenAI, Meta AI Research, MotherDuck, dbt Labs and Square as well as PebbleBed, Company Ventures and Mantis VC firms.
  • PostgreSQL, plus direct integrations with official data sources.
  • Data: PostgreSQL, plus direct integrations with official data sources.

Skills

  • strong in Python/TypeScript, comfortable across distributed systems, data pipelines, and API development.
  • Comfortable presenting to C-level executives and technical teams alike.
  • Willing to travel regularly (30-50%) for on-site client engagements from our NYC HQ.
  • From the personal side:
  • Don't check every box?
  • Apply anyway.
  • Backend: Rust - agent orchestration, data extraction, computation pipelines.

Compensation

  • $30k-$50k

Benefits

  • 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families.
  • HSA maxed by the company to the IRS limit.
  • Automatic coverage for life, AD&D, and disability insurance.
  • Unlimited PTO policy.
  • Learning budget - attend any conference, course, or program that makes you better at what we're building.

Company info

  • The founding team spent a combined 40+ years at Palantir building the type of large-scale data infrastructure that Kepler requires.
  • Our co-founder created Palantir's first AI platform and built the analytics engine behind $100M+ contracts.
  • Our founding engineers led Foundry's core systems - Ontology, Fusion, Workshop, FoundryML - and scaled data products at Meta to 1B+ users.
  • We've paired this deep technical foundation with a repeat founder profile.
  • Our CEO built and scaled a data company to $15M ARR before successfully selling it.
  • He then became Citadel's first Head of Business Engineering, experiencing first hand the problems we are now solving.
  • We have a team who've been on both sides: building systems like this at massive scale and selling it into the buyers who need it most.
  • you've been a Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or similar, working directly with enterprise customers.
  • We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.

Equal opportunity

  • Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.
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