Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

Arkham is a Data & AI platform that helps large enterprises unify fragmented systems and data, build a single source of trusted operational metrics and solve complex challenges with AI tailored to their operations. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you help drive the AI transformation journey for customers by working hands-on across data science, AI architecture and implementation, partnering with client stakeholders to deliver high-impact solutions. Once a customer's Data Platform is live in Arkham, you help deliver and expand AI use cases, typically contributing to 1-4 implementations at once alongside senior team members.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with BI, Finance, Operations and business stakeholders to identify high-leverage AI opportunities and build robust ML and GenAI solutions.
• Deploy production-ready systems and support adoption across the client organization.
• Build and deploy ML models such as forecasting, optimization, clustering and anomaly detection models.
• Develop Generative AI workflows and implement AI Agents that automate analysis and operational decisions.
• Follow best practices for model monitoring, retraining and governance.
• Within 2-4 weeks, help deliver an operational AI solution that solves a core business pain point.
• Define data requirements and modeling strategies with the team.

Required profile

• 2-3 years of hands-on Data Science experience.
• Experience delivering ML systems into production.
• Solid exposure to client-facing or stakeholder-intensive environments.
• Good understanding of statistical modeling and model evaluation.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Required skills

• Python and SQL
• Forecasting and time-series models
• Supervised and unsupervised machine learning
• Familiarity with Generative AI, prompt engineering, AI agents and LLM-based workflows
• Git and collaborative development workflows