Forward Deployed Finance Engineer, Private Credit
Hybrid (New York)$254.6k - $350kFull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Finance Engineer on Harvey's investment-side team who translate investment experience into Harvey solutions, leading discovery, demos, pilots, onboarding, and custom builds for private credit clients. Builds credit playbooks, templates, and workflows; travels 2–3+ times per month for business needs.
Responsibilities
- Lead discovery, demos, pilots, trainings, onboarding, and custom builds alongside Account Executives and Customer Success Managers.
- Translate real investment work into Harvey solutions across the customer lifecycle, from first pilot to complex custom workflows.
- Design, build, and refine credit screening, underwriting, and credit committee workflows using Harvey templates and formats.
- Demos to lenders, guide through AI-enabled capabilities, and gather credit-team feedback to influence product roadmap.
- Develop and deliver credit-related playbooks, demonstration libraries, and workflow templates; run live pilots and post-close compliance activities.
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders to drive outcomes and expand adoption of Harvey Deals for private credit.
- Travel 2–3+ times per month for significant business needs (1–3 days per trip).
- Capture and relay feedback from credit teams to product for future releases.
Qualifications
- 3+ years on the investment or underwriting team at a direct lender, private credit fund, BDC manager, or insurer private credit arm with live deal experience (screening, underwriting, diligence, modeling, structuring, and drafting credit committee materials). Asset-based and specialty finance backgrounds welcomed; principal-side deal execution required.
- Strong command of credit decision documents and data (lender presentation, CIM, QoE, data packs, models, credit agreements, intercreditor arrangements, compliance certificates).
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling; comfort with AI workflows; experience building internal tools with Python/SQL is a plus.
- Executive presence and relationship-building skills across analysts to partners and credit committees.
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills; able to lead live demos and technical discussions on covenants and underwriting assumptions.
- Curiosity about AI's potential in investment work with a practical, action-oriented mindset.
- Track record partnering with senior stakeholders to drive results and optimize for customer outcomes.
- Customer-facing or commercial experience and/or hands-on experience using AI tools in an investment setting is a plus.
Skills
Required:Credit underwriting and structuringExcel and financial modelingAI workflows / agentic AIExecutive presence & relationship managementCommunication & presentationCredit market knowledge (private credit)
Nice to have:Python/SQL / internal tools
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
- Flexible PTO
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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