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Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Sardine· Engineering
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Remote$160k - $210k + equityFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Forward Deployed AI Engineer at Sardine acting as a bridge between AI capabilities and clients’ fraud, compliance, and workflow challenges. Embeds with clients to architect, train, and deploy custom AI agents and intelligent workflows into production, delivering AI-driven solutions with end-to-end ownership.

Responsibilities

  • Embed directly with clients to gather requirements, translating ambiguous operational challenges into concrete technical architectures and delivering high-impact, AI-driven solutions with extreme ownership.
  • Train and deploy custom AI agents to prevent fraud and automate complex fincrime workflows across a diverse portfolio of use cases.
  • Utilize advanced prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and rigorous evaluation frameworks to continuously optimize AI agent performance, ensuring high accuracy, safety, and reliability.
  • Champion an AI-first approach across internal teams and client engagements, demonstrating the tangible business impact of advanced machine learning interventions.
  • Establish and evolve our AI risk metrics, the supporting datasets, and the evaluation pipelines used to measure the causal impact of deployed agents.
  • Collaborate tightly with internal engineering and product teams to scale custom models into production, ensuring seamless integration and optimized operational performance.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in Data Science or Applied AI
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL for complex data manipulation, pipeline building, and model integration
  • A creative, critical thinker with a "get-things-done" mentality, who thrives autonomously and is obsessed with delivering measurable business value
  • Exceptional ability to own the end-to-end solution lifecycle, including translating ambiguous client challenges into concrete requirements and delivering the final product.

Skills

Required:Data SciencePythonSQL

Benefits

  • Generous compensation in cash and equity
  • Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
  • Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
  • Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
  • Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Canada specific
  • 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific
  • MacBook Pro delivered to your door
  • One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.
  • Monthly meal stipend
  • Monthly social meet-up stipend
  • Annual health and wellness stipend
  • Annual Learning stipend
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Sardine

The AI risk platform for fraud, credit, and compliance

Sardine’s AI platform is at the core of enterprise risk and fraud workflows, allowing them to consolidate vendors and improve operational efficiency. Hundreds of enterprises in over 70 countries trust Sardine to stop fraud in real-time, streamline BSA/AML compliance, and unify data across risk teams.

fraud preventionKYC/AMLTransaction monitoringBot detectionScams and ATOCard issuing fraudAML MonitoringCustomer dashboard
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