Sardine is hiring a remote Forward Deployed AI Engineer!
Sardine, a risk platform focused on financial crime and fraud prevention, is hiring a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to sit between its AI product capabilities and its customers. The position is remote, but candidates must be based in the United States or Canada, and compensation is tied to location. This is a client-embedded, hands-on role: rather than only running analyses, the engineer scopes ambiguous operational problems with customers, designs a technical architecture, and then builds, trains, and ships custom AI agents and automated workflows into live production settings. The company describes itself as remote-first with a performance-oriented culture and an emphasis on ownership. Successful candidates will combine strong applied machine learning and data engineering skills with the consultative judgment to translate messy business requirements into working systems, and will work closely with internal engineering and product groups to scale bespoke models into reliable production deployments.
Key responsibilities
- Work directly with client teams to surface requirements and turn vague operational problems into concrete technical designs.
- Build, train, and deploy custom AI agents and intelligent workflows that address fraud and financial-crime operations.
- Improve agent quality through prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and structured evaluation, prioritizing accuracy, safety, and reliability.
- Promote AI-first practices internally and with customers, showing measurable business outcomes from machine learning work.
- Define and maintain AI risk metrics, supporting datasets, and evaluation pipelines that measure the causal impact of deployed agents.
- Partner with engineering and product colleagues to productionize custom models and ensure smooth integration and performance.
Key requirements
- Five or more years of experience in data science or applied AI.
- Strong Python and SQL skills for complex data work, pipeline construction, and model integration.
- A creative, critical problem-solver with a bias toward shipping and comfort working autonomously.
- Demonstrated ability to own a solution end to end, including converting ambiguous client needs into clear requirements and a delivered product.
- Client-facing or consulting aptitude, with the communication skills to work closely with external stakeholders.
- Seniority: Senior
- Work mode: Remote (United States or Canada)
- Key skills: Python, SQL, AI agent development, Prompt engineering, Model fine-tuning, Evaluation frameworks, Machine learning, Data pipelines, Client-facing consulting
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