Forward Deployed AI Engineer - Sardine

Who we are

Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. Sardine’s platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide. Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.

Our Culture

• We have hubs in the Bay Area, NYC, Austin, Toronto, and São Paulo, but maintain a remote-first work culture.
• We hire talented, self-motivated individuals with extreme ownership and high growth orientation.
• We value performance over hours worked, ensuring flexibility for your personal life.

About the Role

As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer at Sardine, you will act as the crucial bridge between our state-of-the-art AI capabilities and our clients' most complex fraud, compliance, and workflow challenges. You will embed directly with clients to understand their unique operational pain points, scope requirements, and build the solution.

You will architect, train, and deploy custom AI agents and intelligent workflows into production environments. This role demands the technical rigor of a seasoned data scientist and the strategic, client-facing acumen to drive a project from conception to deployment.

What You'll Be Doing

• Embed directly with clients to gather requirements, translating ambiguous operational challenges into concrete technical architectures and delivering high-impact, AI-driven solutions.
• 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 for accuracy, safety, and reliability.
• Champion an AI-first approach across internal teams and client engagements, demonstrating tangible business impact.
• Establish and evolve our AI risk metrics, supporting datasets, and evaluation pipelines to measure the causal impact of deployed agents.
• Collaborate tightly with internal engineering and product teams to scale custom models into production.

What You'll Need

• 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 delivers measurable business value.
• Exceptional ability to own the end-to-end solution lifecycle, translating ambiguous client challenges into concrete technical requirements.

Benefits

• Generous compensation in cash and equity
• Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
• Remote-first work culture
• Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
• Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage (US and Canada specific)
• 4% matching in 401k / RRSP (US and Canada specific)
• MacBook Pro delivered to your door
• Home office setup stipend
• Monthly meal and social meet-up stipends
• Annual health, wellness, and learning stipends