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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at Bretton AI'
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last_seen: '2026-09-05'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer at Bretton AI

- **Company:** Bretton AI
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $150k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-03-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/brettonai/b21f7919-92f0-4de8-bd76-daeb16341a31

## Job description

## ABOUT BRETTON AI

Bretton runs AI-native operations for the financial back office. OCC, Fed and FDIC regulated banks use Bretton AI to run compliance, risk, fraud, and operations on one platform, on their own data and policies, with every output traced, cited, and audit-ready.

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 Google, Netflix, Stripe, Plaid, Brex, 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
- Flexible time off, unlimited sick days, and paid holidays
- Flexible leave options
- Working late? We cover DoorDash and Uber home

## About Bretton AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Bretton AI is an AI agent platform that automates financial crime compliance and back-office operations for regulated banks, replacing traditional BPOs with an audit-ready, AI-native workforce.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – led by Sapphire Ventures, total funding $20.4M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Will Lawrence

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial technology (FinTech), AI-powered compliance and risk management, RegTech
- **Target customers**: B2B – OCC, FDIC, and Fed-regulated banks, global exchanges, payments platforms, and other financial institutions (Fortune 500)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Grow the bank. Not the back office.” – reimagining how money moves by creating an AI workforce that makes finance smarter, faster, and more secure.

## Products & Services
- **Bretton AI Platform**: An AI-native operations platform that includes a Workbench (case workspace for humans and agents), a Builder (natural-language agent creation), and Trust Infrastructure (model validation, governance, auditability). Supports 30+ skill templates and 180+ data sources.
- **Bretton Agents**: Pre-built and custom agents for AML, sanctions screening, KYC/EDD, fraud operations, document reviews, alert handling, customer reviews, due diligence, and case narratives.
- **Bretton AI Managed Services**: Full-service transition to agentic infrastructure, including Forward Deployed Engineers who continuously improve agent performance.
- **Integrations**: Native connectors for core banking systems, document management, and compliance workflows.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $20.4M (Series B, 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sapphire Ventures (Series B lead), Greylock (Series A and Seed lead), Y Combinator (Summer 2023 batch, led by Tom Blomfield). Partnered with Kaufman Rossin for agentic compliance.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew from ~34 (early 2025) to 92 employees (mid-2026) – a 170%+ increase.
  - LinkedIn followers: 7,612 (+5.7% monthly).
  - Trusted by OCC, FDIC, and Fed-regulated institutions; deployed in 12 markets.
  - Reported metrics: 84,000 hours saved, 87% reduction in compliance review time, 200,000+ customer reviews conducted, 70% reduction in EDD queue completion time.
  - Active job postings: 9 open roles across engineering, sales, and operations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Trust Infrastructure**: Proprietary system of model validation, continuous evaluations, and agent-as-a-judge QA that ensures every output is traced, cited, and regulator-aligned from day one.
- **Bank-grade compliance**: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR compliant, zero-data retention, virtual private clouds for enterprise deployment.
- **Defensibility**: Every decision logged with reasoning, evidence, and model version – production traces become eval sets, meeting OCC/FDIC/Fed expectations.
- **Forward Deployed Engineering**: Dedicated engineers who learn from each case, making agents sharper over time and uncapping capacity from headcount.

## Strategic Focus
- Replace traditional BPOs with AI-native operations across the financial back office.
- Expand into new markets, products, and customer segments without adding operational load.
- Deepen partnerships with regulated institutions and continue building out the agent ecosystem (templates, data sources, integrations).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include “sense of urgency”, “drivers not passengers”, “truth over comfort”, “partnership”, and “know your customers” – a high-ownership, impact-driven environment.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: HQ in San Francisco, CA; roles listed in San Francisco and New York, NY. Likely in-office/hybrid based on job descriptions (no explicit remote policy stated).
- **Notable Perks & Engineering Culture**:
  - Mission-critical work: directly shaping how regulated financial institutions use AI.
  - Backed by top-tier investors (Greylock, Sapphire, YC) with strong engineering pedigree.
  - Salary ranges for key roles (from YC listings): Forward Deployed Engineer $168K–$213K, Software Engineer (Product) $170K–$200K, Software Engineer (Infrastructure) $168K–$213K, Enterprise Account Executive $220K–$300K (OTE).
  - Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI and financial compliance at scale.

## Sources
1. [bretton.com](https://www.bretton.com/)
2. [bretton.com/careers](https://www.bretton.com/careers)
3. [ycombinator.com/companies/bretton-ai](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bretton-ai)
4. [linkedin.com/company/bretton-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bretton-ai)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/brettonai](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/brettonai)

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