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# Forward Deployed Engineer I (Remote, US) at Sayari

- **Company:** Sayari
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $160k–$180k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-03
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sayari/jobs/4465852009

## Job description

About Sayari:

Sayari is the judgment infrastructure for trustworthy AI in economic security and commercial risk. The Sayari Commercial World Model resolves 11.7B+ primary-source records from 250+ jurisdictions forming the ground truth of global commerce. A Judgment Ontology, encoding over a decade of investigative tradecraft, and Superconductor, an agentic orchestration platform, deliver AI that reasons like an expert analyst, shows its work, and traces every finding to its source. Trusted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, HM Revenue & Customs, and Fortune 500 enterprises, Sayari is used by thousands of professionals across 35+ countries to secure supply chains and dismantle illicit networks. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Tel Aviv.

## SAYARI

## FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEERING | JOB DESCRIPTION

Forward Deployed Engineer I

## About Sayari

Sayari is the judgment infrastructure for trustworthy AI in economic security and commercial risk. The Sayari Commercial World Model resolves 11.7B+ primary-source records from 250+ jurisdictions forming the ground truth of global commerce. A Judgment Ontology, encoding over a decade of investigative tradecraft, and Superconductor, an agentic orchestration platform, deliver AI that reasons like an expert analyst, shows its work, and traces every finding to its source. Trusted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, HM Revenue & Customs, and Fortune 500 enterprises, Sayari is used by thousands of professionals across 35+ countries to secure supply chains and dismantle illicit networks. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Tel Aviv.

## The Role

Sayari’s customers run risk screening, graph analytics and investigation workflows, and data integrations (APIs and feeds) on the Commercial World Model. Those deployments have to work on day one and keep working. As a Forward Deployed Engineer I, you own that outcome. You scope the problem with the customer, prove it technically, ship it, and keep the account healthy after go-live. The same engineer scopes the work and delivers it.

This is not a ticket queue. You receive direction, not a script. You work across a portfolio of accounts rather than embedding in one, so the role rewards engineers who move fast, document as they go, and leave every deployment in a state another engineer can pick up. Opportunity to contribute to Sayari’s agentic platform.

## What You’ll Do

- Scope and prove: run technical scoping and evaluation with customer teams, and confirm Sayari fits the workflow before delivery starts.
- Implement: deploy risk screening, graph analytics and investigation workflows, and data integrations (APIs and feeds). Write production Python and SQL to do it.
- Deliver data: execute bulk data cuts and formatted data products (Parquet, CSV), set up and support API endpoints, and onboard customer pipelines: environment setup, data validation, integration testing.
- Keep deployments healthy: monitor usage and pipeline status, build dashboards that give customers and internal teams clear visibility, and resolve issues before they become churn risk.
- Build the playbook: follow and improve delivery playbooks and SOPs. Document your work clearly enough that another engineer can pick it up without a handoff call.
- Feed the product: bring recurring customer needs and field findings back to core engineering.

## What We’re Looking For

Required

- 3 to 5 years in a client-facing technical role (forward deployed engineering, sales engineering, technical delivery, or technical consulting).
- Production Python, including the data manipulation ecosystem (Pandas).
- Deep SQL: writing and optimizing complex queries.
- Hands-on experience integrating, testing, and supporting REST APIs.
- Large-scale data processing with Spark, BigQuery, or Snowflake, and pipeline orchestration with Airflow or similar.
- Working knowledge of AWS or GCP.
- AI-assisted coding tools (Cursor, Claude, or similar) as a daily part of how you work.
- Strong written and verbal communication. You explain technical work clearly to engineers, analysts, and senior stakeholders.
- Problem solving in ambiguity, and fast uptake of new technologies and tools.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field.

Desired

- Building with LLM APIs for analytical or automation tasks.
- Containers (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud deployment patterns.
- BI and dashboarding tools (Looker, Tableau, Metabase).
- Graph data technologies and their query languages.
- Exposure to ML, NLP, or entity resolution.
- Experience in high-stakes domains: AML and financial crime, supply chain risk, or national security.

## How You Work

You are self-directed. You do not need someone to define every step. You spot gaps, ask the right questions, flag tradeoffs, and execute. You hold a high bar on output quality because the work you hand off represents Sayari to the customer. You take full accountability for what you deliver.

Logistics

- Travel and in-office time: 25-30% combined.
- Limitless growth and learning opportunities.

Sayari is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages diverse candidates to apply. We believe diversity and inclusion mean our team members should reflect the diversity of the United States. No employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on race, color, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status, genetics, or political affiliation. We strongly encourage applicants of all backgrounds to apply. Pay Range $160,000—$180,000 USD

## About Sayari

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sayari provides a risk intelligence platform powered by a world model of global commerce and the shadow economy, used for sanctions screening, supply chain risk, and national security analysis.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Growth-stage, $228M Series B from TPG)
- **Headquarters**: Washington, D.C., USA (Global HQ) with a second HQ in London, UK; offices in Canada, Israel, Dubai, Singapore, Tokyo, and Canberra.
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Farley Mesko (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Risk Intelligence, Trade Compliance, National Security, Supply Chain Risk Management, AI for Economic Security.
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, and Government. Customers include >25% of the top 35 global banks, Fortune 1000 manufacturers, and U.S. federal agencies (e.g., CBP, Treasury).
- **Mission**: "We exist to empower the defenders of global systems of commerce and trade for a safer, stronger, and better world."

## Products & Services
- **Sayari Platform (Agentic System of Work)**: An AI-native operating system for risk and compliance analysts. It integrates a search engine for non-indexed records, a knowledge graph of 1.5B+ entities and 3B+ relationships across 250+ jurisdictions, and agentic AI that produces verifiable, source-cited reasoning.
- **Superconductor**: Evaluation infrastructure that scores every AI output against tradecraft standards before it reaches a human team, ensuring quality and auditability.
- **Commercial World Model**: The underlying data asset — a structured model of global corporate and trade records (11.7B+ longitudinal records) including hard-to-access data from secrecy jurisdictions and ephemeral sources.
- **Internal xOS Infrastructure**: The same judgment infrastructure sold to clients is used internally to run all functions (marketing, sales, CS, finance, legal, engineering) — proving the product on the company's own operations.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: ~$100M Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), still founder-led.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Raised $228M from TPG (Series B, 2025). Other investors not fully detailed in public materials. Key government contracts include a $7.8M contract from CBP for UFLPA trade risk and an $8.5M Treasury contract for sanctions enforcement.
- **Growth Signals**: 4th consecutive year on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing US companies (2025). Deloitte Fast 500 (2025). Inc. Best Workplaces (2025). SupplyTech Breakthrough (2025). Headcount of 250+ employees. Global expansion with offices across 8 countries and 24-hour coverage.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Data & Knowledge Graph**: A decade of work building the world model of global commerce, connecting 1.5B+ entities and 3B+ relationships across 250+ jurisdictions, including hard-to-access data. This data and the tradecraft expertise that interprets it have co-evolved and cannot be easily replicated.
- **Judgment Infrastructure**: Unlike black-box AI, Sayari’s agentic systems produce verifiable, source-cited reasoning that can stand up in enforcement proceedings. The "Superconductor" layer proves quality before deployment.
- **AI-Native Operations**: The company runs its own operations on the same AI infrastructure it sells, creating a compounding feedback loop where every internal interaction sharpens the product.
- **Trusted by Government & Enterprise**: Deployed at U.S. federal agencies and over a quarter of the top global banks, providing a strong moat in a regulated market.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Native Transformation**: Rebuilding every internal function (marketing, sales, CS, legal, finance) on custom AI operating systems (xOS) — treating the company as the proving ground for its own product.
- **Agentic AI for Risk**: Moving beyond chatbots and copilots to automated loops that monitor signals, produce outputs, and route them to the right people without human prompting.
- **Global Expansion**: Deepening presence in EMEA (London HQ2, Israel engineering, Dubai sales) and APAC (Singapore, Tokyo, Canberra) to serve the fastest-growing compliance and supply chain markets.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: The company directly impacts national security and global commerce integrity. The stated philosophy is "there is real good and real evil. We show up every day to contribute towards the good."
- **Technical Frontier**: Engineers work on entity resolution at scale across 500M+ companies in 250+ jurisdictions, adversarial data in multiple scripts (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Persian), and agentic AI for risk — all on a knowledge graph of 1.5B+ entities.
- **Founder-Led & Growth-Stage**: ~$100M ARR with the speed of a startup. The company describes itself as "founded twice" — having undergone a major platform shift to AI-native operations.
- **AI-Native Culture**: Every team runs on xOS, the same judgment infrastructure sold to clients. New hires don't just ship features; they help design how a company operates when "nothing is sacrosanct and every process is a candidate for reinvention."
- **Global & Flexible**: Regional compensation, locally compliant benefits, and flexible working arrangements are standard. Engineering and data teams are based in D.C. and Canada; the company has 24-hour time zone coverage.
- **Awards**: Inc. Best Workplaces (2025), Deloitte Fast 500 (2025), Inc. 5000 (2025).

## Sources
1. [Sayari About Page](https://sayari.com/about/)
2. [Sayari Homepage](https://sayari.com/)
3. [Sayari Careers Page](https://sayari.com/careers/)
4. [Sayari LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sayarilabs)
5. [Sayari Greenhouse Job Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sayari)
6. [Wall Street Journal - $228M Raise](https://www.wsj.com) (Referenced in Sayari materials)
7. [BusinessWire - CBP Contract](https://www.businesswire.com) (Referenced in Sayari materials)
8. [Press Release - Treasury Contract](https://sayari.com) (Referenced in Sayari materials)

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