PrincipalForwardDeployedEngineer–AppliedAIFocus

THE ROLE This is the deep-end engineering role on the FDE bench. You're not just configuring on the platform — you're building off it, into it, and around it. On a typical engagement, you're working side-by-side with the client's own engineering team: integrating into their loan origination system, their data warehouse, their identity stack, their CI. You're the technical authority in the room. You're still forward deployed, still co-owning the strategic outcome, still client-facing. But your edge is depth — system design, distributed architecture, secure integration, and the ability to ship production code under banking-grade scrutiny. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Lead the technical design and delivery of complex banking AI engagements, including off-platform builds and bespoke integrations into client systems - Partner directly with client engineering, security, and architecture teams — speak their language, respect their constraints, design for their reality - Architect end-to-end agentic systems: data ingress, model orchestration, evals, observability, security, and the production wrapper around all of it - Make the call on what to build on Titan's platform vs. what to build bespoke vs. what to push back into our roadmap - Mentor mid-level FDEs and influence platform direction by codifying what you learn into reusable assets and patterns - Represent Titan's engineering credibility to banking CTOs, CISOs, and their architects WHO YOU ARE - A senior engineer with real production scars. You've shipped systems that mattered to real users, at meaningful scale or under meaningful constraint. - A builder above all. Title less interesting than slope. Many of the best people we know took unconventional paths to get here — that's a feature, not an exception. - A strong client-facing presence. You can hold your own with a bank CTO, push back on a CISO's threat model with substance, and translate between engineers and executives in real time. - A systems thinker. You see how a piece fi