Forward Deployed Engineer, Gen AI

Bounteous is a premier end-to-end digital transformation consultancy dedicated to partnering with ambitious brands to create digital solutions for today’s complex challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. With uncompromising standards for technical and domain expertise, we deliver innovative and strategic solutions in Strategy, Analytics, Digital Engineering, Cloud, Data & AI, Experience Design, and Marketing. Our Co-Innovation methodology is a unique engagement model designed to align interests and accelerate value creation. Our clients worldwide benefit from the skills and expertise of over 4,000+ expert team members across the Americas, APAC, and EMEA. By partnering with leading technology providers, we craft transformative digital experiences that enhance customer engagement and drive business success. Bounteous is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer, Generative AI to support a strategic engagement with the Fixed Income business (investment bank) in New York. This is a highly embedded, client-facing engineering role. The FDE will work directly with Fixed Income business users, technology teams, quants, operations, and control functions to identify high-value AI use cases, translate business workflows into technical designs, and build production-grade AI solutions. This role is not purely advisory. The successful candidate will be expected to sit close to the business, understand front-office and operational workflows, write code, test solutions, debug issues, and help move AI use cases from concept to controlled production adoption. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering skills, practical generative AI experience, and a consultative approach to working with senior business stakeholders in a regulated financial-services environment. What you will do • Embed with banks Fixed Income teams in New York to understand business workflows, pain points, data availability, and AI opportunities. • Partner with traders, sales, research, operations, risk, compliance, and technology stakeholders to translate business requirements into AI-enabled solutions. • Design, prototype, and build generative AI applications using Python, OpenAI or Claude Agent SDK an d other agentic frameworks (comparable LLM APIs), prompt engineering, MCP integrations, orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflows. • Develop AI solutions that support Fixed Income use cases such as knowledge retrieval, workflow automation, document analysis, trade support, client intelligence, operational exception handling, and management reporting. • Build retrieval pipelines across structured and unstructured data, including research, policies, procedures, trade-related data, market commentary, client documents, and internal knowledge repositories. • Apply prompt engineering techniques to improve model accuracy, consistency, explainability, and user trust.