# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [Bretton AI](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/bretton-ai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Work mode:** On-site
**Seniority:** Mid
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 150K–200K/yr
**Category:** Aerospace Engineering
**Listed:** 2026-03-24

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## Job description

### **About Bretton AI**

Bretton AI is the leading AI agent platform for financial services. Companies like Robinhood, Mercury and Gusto trust us to automate mission critical work, starting with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism investigations.

We’ve raised over $95M from Greylock, Y Combinator, Thomson Reuters Ventures and other top tier investors. We’re based in downtown San Francisco and our team comes from world-class organizations like SpaceX, Google, Netflix, Stripe, Plaid and more.

### **The Role**

We are looking for a **Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)** to work directly with customers to deploy and integrate Bretton’s platform in real-world environments. This role sits at the intersection of **engineering, customer deployments, and product discovery** , helping customers implement Bretton’s technology in complex enterprise environments while uncovering insights that improve and scale the product.

### **What You'll Do**

-   Deploy Bretton's AI agents at banks, fintechs, and payments companies, navigating the security and compliance requirements that come with regulated environments.
    
-   Travel onsite to work through last-mile connectivity challenges, from wiring up core banking integrations to resolving edge cases that only surface in live production.
    
-   Partner with BSA officers, AML analysts, and risk teams to translate their workflows and regulatory requirements into agent behavior that reflects how their business actually works.
    
-   Build the connectors, configuration tools, and internal frameworks that turn one-off customer solutions into repeatable platform capabilities.
    
-   Guide customers from demo through go-live as a trusted technical advisor, helping them resolve issues quickly and expand the value they get from Bretton.
    
-   Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and GTM to remove blockers and do whatever it takes to make customers successful.
    
-   Diagnose and resolve issues in real deployments by reproducing problems and collaborating with the engineering team to fix them.
    
-   Translate customer usage into product insights by sharing customer needs with engineering and product teams and identifying opportunities to turn recurring solutions into product features.
    

### Technical Qualifications

-   2+ years of experience as a software engineer or similar
    
-   Strong backend or data engineering background
    
-   Experience with Python, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure
    
-   Previous experience in a customer-facing technical role (e.g., solutions engineer, forward deployed engineer, or technical implementation role) is a plus.
    
-   Actively building with LLMs and modern AI systems is a must
    

### Soft Skills

-   Excellent communication skills
    
-   Ability to explain AI systems to non-technical stakeholders
    
-   Strong debugging and problem-solving mindset
    
-   Comfort working with enterprise customers
    

### Compensation & Benefits

-   $150k - $200k base salary + meaningful equity
    
-   Comprehensive healthcare, 401k matching, commuter benefits
    
-   15 days PTO + holidays, unlimited sick days
    
-   Flexible leave options
    
-   Working late? We cover DoorDash and Uber home

## Other open roles at Bretton AI

- [Solutions Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/bretton-ai/solutions-engineer-94012) — Remote (US)
- [Financial Crime Analyst](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/bretton-ai/financial-crime-analyst-94017) — Remote- United States / San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)
- [Software Engineer, Product](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/bretton-ai/software-engineer-product-90600) — San Francisco, CA
- [Software Engineer, Infrastructure](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/bretton-ai/software-engineer-infrastructure-90602) — San Francisco, CA
- [Enterprise Account Executive](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/bretton-ai/enterprise-account-executive-72400) — San Francisco, CA, US / New York, NY, US

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