Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

Taktile is redefining how financial institutions use AI to make critical decisions, and we're growing fast. As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll be at the heart of that transformation, owning the technical journey from customer onboarding to production-grade AI deployments that deliver real business impact.

What you'll do

• Lead complex AI-driven Taktile deployments in production. You own technical delivery across multiple deployments, from scoping high-impact Agentic AI use cases to stable production.
• Apply your technical expertise, problem-solving skills and creativity to help organizations address real-world challenges. Your day could include designing solution architectures, developing decision logic and deploying production-grade Generative AI agents, or aligning with key customer stakeholders.
• You effectively scope work, sequence delivery, and proactively remove blockers, while making thoughtful trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality to ensure successful and timely project delivery.
• Partner with Taktile's product management team to turn your understanding of customer needs into actionable product insights, directly influencing the evolution of Taktile's product roadmap.
• Develop reusable resources, best practices, and tools to share your expertise and help scale the forward deployed engineering function across the organization.

What you'll need

• You bring 4-6 years of engineering or technical deployment experience that includes customer-facing work.
• You have strong technical background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science.
• You write and review production-grade Python and SQL, and have strong command of REST API design and integrations.
• You excel at breaking down complex problems and making quick, well-informed decisions even under pressure.
• You build strong relationships with both technical and business stakeholders at all levels, driven by curiosity and a customer-centric mindset.
• You're collaborative, curious, and low-ego- you work well across product, engineering, and GTM teams.
• You are open to a hybrid work model and can work from our Berlin or London office at least three days per week.

Nice to have

• You have 4-6 years of experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Solution Engineer, Implementation Specialist or an equivalent position within a B2B SaaS company.
• You have experience in building AI applications within financial services
• You have experience in applying and optimizing statistical and machine learning models to solve business problems.
• You have experience with at least one of the major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

What they offer

• Top-of-market equity and cash compensation package
• Self-development budget for conferences, books or classes
• Equipment of your choice including meaningful home office set-up
• Flat hierarchy with direct communication to founding team members
• Learn from experienced mentors and achieve tremendous personal growth
• Access to network of leading tech investors and advisors