Forward Deployed Engineer

Location: Mumbai, India (in office 5 days a week)

Position Summary

This is a founding engineering role at the center of our client's AI strategy. Our client is a global investment research, analytics, and accounting firm that serves private equity funds, family offices, credit and hedge funds, investment banks, and corporates across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. The role follows the Forward Deployed Engineer model: hands-on technical leaders who embed with the business, own delivery end to end, and take full ownership of the outcomes they ship.

The mandate unfolds in two stages. In the first, you will embed with the firm's internal investment, diligence, portfolio monitoring, and accounting teams to find the highest-value AI and automation opportunities in its own delivery model and ship them into production. The role reports up to the CEO, with access to senior leadership on a daily basis, the right candidate should have excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

In the second,



you will take proven capabilities into the portfolio companies of the firm's private equity and family office clients. These are mid-market operating businesses whose finance and operations functions often run on fragmented systems, manual reporting, and limited internal technical resources. Working with portfolio company CFOs, controllers, and operating teams, and alongside the sponsor's operating partners, you will design and deliver solutions that improve reporting quality, operational efficiency, and visibility for both management and ownership.

You will design, build, and deliver full-stack solutions and the AI-ready data foundations beneath them. The goal is to turn manual, spreadsheet-based processes into automated, standardized, and auditable systems that professionals and AI agents can both rely on.

The position calls for someone equally comfortable walking a portfolio company controller through a close proces

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