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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at Endex'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer at Endex

- **Company:** Endex
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/endex/5c6b360f-94ea-404e-8929-def23aaa0a9a

## Job description

## Who We Are

Endex builds AI agents that handle complex, end-to-end work for the world's most demanding teams. Today we're deployed across leading financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies, embedded in the tools and workflows they rely on. We operate at the frontier of agentic knowledge work, partnering closely with top AI research labs and backed by the OpenAI Startup Fund. We're on a mission to build the most capable digital coworker in the world.

## About the Role

Location: New York City (Primary), Denver, Chicago, Singapore (APAC), London, San Francisco, Austin, Los Angeles Commitment: 5 Days In-Person We're looking for an engineer who wants to work close to customers and build the software that makes a deployment succeed. As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Endex, you'll develop integrations and customer-specific capabilities where production engineering is required. You'll work with deployment teams and core engineering to turn useful field solutions into reusable product patterns.

## Your Key Responsibilities

- Ship Customer Integrations: Build production code that connects Endex to customer systems and executes a real workflow end to end.
- Work Within Enterprise Constraints: Design for authentication, permissions, data boundaries and the customer's operating environment.
- Own the Production Outcome: Test integrations, add observability and recovery behavior, and support what you deploy through launch.
- Coordinate Product Boundaries: Agree what belongs in a customer solution and what should enter the core product.
- Make Work Reusable: Bring proven integration patterns and field learning back to engineering.

## What We're Looking For

- Software Engineering Foundation: You've shipped and maintained production software.
- Integration Fluency: You can work with APIs, authentication and enterprise systems.
- Customer Judgment: You ask good questions and explain technical trade-offs clearly.
- Practical Builder: You choose a solution that works within real constraints.
- Customer-Facing Engineering: You can investigate requirements with users, make sound implementation trade-offs and maintain the code after it ships.

## Nice to Have

- Python or TypeScript experience
- Experience with AI applications or agent workflows
- Experience with Python or Node.js, HTTP APIs and enterprise identity or Office integrations

Full-Time Benefits

- Health & Dental Insurance
- Monthly Wellness Stipend
- 401K Matching

## About Endex

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Endex is an Excel-native AI Agent that accelerates financial modeling and data analysis for investment professionals.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed; $14M led by OpenAI Startup Fund)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Tarun Amasa (CEO) and Pratham Soni (Chief Research Officer)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: AI-powered financial analysis / Financial technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise finance teams at investment banks, hedge funds, private equity firms (clients include Fortune 5 companies, $100B+ AUM firms, and top global investment banks)
- **Mission/purpose**: “AI Built for Excel” – to accelerate and automate the work of financial analysts by bringing advanced AI directly into the spreadsheet environment.

## Products & Services
- **Endex AI Agent**: A native Excel add-in that enables users to perform financial modeling, data analysis, deep research, and report generation using natural language. Key capabilities include:
  - **Trace References**: AI-labeled tracing of cell references across complex workbooks.
  - **Deep Research Integration**: Native access to OpenAI Deep Research with contextual understanding of the workbook and verified sources.
  - **Memories**: Remembers user preferences for style and recurring workflows.
  - **LLM Integrations**: Deeply integrated with major model providers (OpenAI GPT-4o, o1, o3-mini) with zero data retention agreements.
  - **PDF to Table Conversion**: Eliminates manual data entry from financial statements, pitch decks, and research reports.
  - **Formatting Shortcuts**: Apply consistent formatting instantly with customizable keyboard shortcuts.
  - **Firm Templates**: Create repeatable templates that autocomplete with new input data.
  - **Undo Changes**: One-click revert of unwanted changes.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $14M (venture round closed August 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Lead investor: OpenAI Startup Fund
  - Partners: Wall Street Prep, Columbia Business School
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 68.8% YoY (from ~11 to 20 employees)
  - LinkedIn followers grew 122.1% in the past year
  - Expanding presence: offices in NYC (HQ), with team members in Israel, Canada, and Brazil
  - Adoption by top-tier financial institutions (Fortune 5, hedge funds, private equity firms)
  - Featured in OpenAI case study as a model partner for building autonomous financial analysts

## Competitive Advantages
- **Excel-native**: Works directly inside Excel – no need to switch applications or learn new interfaces.
- **Finance-specific LLMs**: Custom-built models trained to understand financial documents, accounting methods, and complex charts.
- **Auditable outputs**: Every AI output includes integrated citations and attribution to underlying sources, allowing analysts to trace conclusions.
- **Deep OpenAI integration**: Uses OpenAI’s o1 and o3-mini reasoning models, achieving 70% preference over non-reasoning models in blind tests and enabling multi-step financial reasoning.
- **Enterprise-grade security**: AES-256 encryption in transit and at rest, TLS 1.2/1.3, SOC 2, ISO, CCPA, and GDPR compliant.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling autonomous analyst capabilities to handle increasingly complex financial tasks (e.g., IC memo preparation, data room due diligence, precedent transaction analysis).
- Expanding customer base among financial firms and refining AI agents to act as true “co-workers” for investment teams.
- Continuing close collaboration with OpenAI to push the boundaries of vertical-specific AI for finance.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-moving AI startup backed by OpenAI, working on cutting-edge reasoning models applied to a high-stakes domain. Team is small (~20 people) with a technical majority (37% of headcount in engineering/research).
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Offices in New York City (HQ) and team members across Israel, Canada, and Brazil – likely flexible work arrangements.
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**:
  - Direct access to OpenAI’s latest models and research collaboration.
  - Opportunity to solve hard problems in financial AI (multimodal analysis, agentic workflows, reinforcement fine-tuning).
  - Emphasis on continuous evaluation and improvement – the team tracks metrics like response latency and reasoning depth.
  - Recent hires from top firms (Jump Trading, Two Sigma, Shopify) and university partnerships (Columbia Business School).

## Sources
1. [endex.ai](https://endex.ai/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/endexai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/endexai)
3. [openai.com/index/endex](https://openai.com/index/endex/)
4. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/endex/__1yPXQtxYejdoTb241G65VMwfNLRug0vfLus7qJxeNvo)

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