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title: 'Principal Forward Deployed Engineer – Applied AI Focus at Titan AI'
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# Principal Forward Deployed Engineer – Applied AI Focus at Titan AI

- **Company:** Titan AI
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $180k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-05-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/titan-ai/0315c130-f36f-490c-89c1-ec685530f111

## Job description

## The role

This is the deep-end engineering role on the FDE bench. You're not just configuring on the platform — you're building off it, into it, and around it. On a typical engagement, you're working side-by-side with the client's own engineering team: integrating into their loan origination system, their data warehouse, their identity stack, their CI. You're the technical authority in the room. You're still forward deployed, still co-owning the strategic outcome, still client-facing. But your edge is depth — system design, distributed architecture, secure integration, and the ability to ship production code under banking-grade scrutiny.

## What you'll do

- Lead the technical design and delivery of complex banking AI engagements, including off-platform builds and bespoke integrations into client systems
- Partner directly with client engineering, security, and architecture teams — speak their language, respect their constraints, design for their reality
- Architect end-to-end agentic systems: data ingress, model orchestration, evals, observability, security, and the production wrapper around all of it
- Make the call on what to build on Titan's platform vs. what to build bespoke vs. what to push back into our roadmap
- Mentor mid-level FDEs and influence platform direction by codifying what you learn into reusable assets and patterns
- Represent Titan's engineering credibility to banking CTOs, CISOs, and their architects

## Who you are

- A senior engineer with real production scars. You've shipped systems that mattered to real users, at meaningful scale or under meaningful constraint.
- A builder above all. Title less interesting than slope. Many of the best people we know took unconventional paths to get here — that's a feature, not an exception.
- A strong client-facing presence. You can hold your own with a bank CTO, push back on a CISO's threat model with substance, and translate between engineers and executives in real time.
- A systems thinker. You see how a piece fits — and where it doesn't — before you start typing.
- Hypothesis-driven, opinion-strong, ego-light. You commit to a direction, you ship to test it, and you change course when the data says to.
- Banking or regulated-industry experience strongly preferred — financial services, insurance, healthcare, defense, energy, or similar.

Technical foundation

- Senior-level full-stack with a strong backend spike — distributed systems, API design, secure integration patterns, infrastructure fluency
- Deep experience building production-grade agents using LangChain, LangGraph, DeepAgents, and model-provider SDKs (Claude SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK)
- Fluency in agent search patterns — agent file search, vector RAG, vectorless RAG — and the tradeoffs between them
- Strong working knowledge of AI security frameworks: observability, data controls, model gateways, prompt and tool-call sandboxing
- Hands-on experience designing and running evals; familiarity with training and fine-tuning loops
- Process orchestration and automation at scale
- Comfort owning architectural decisions across the full stack of a production AI system

## Why Titan

We're building the AI platform for banking because most of the two million people employed by 4,000+ U.S. banks cannot safely and securely use modern AI tools at work — and none of them are using AI purpose-built for their domain. We're changing that. Our platform includes:

- Titan Foundry — secure gateway to top AI models for bank employees
- Banking-Reasoning Models — our flagship small language models for financial services, trained by ex-regulators and banking leaders
- Banking Agents — a configurable AI application layer with expertise in lending, compliance, underwriting, and operations

Our team comes from Goldman Sachs, KeyBank, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. We've built and sold companies into the top 25 U.S. banks. We're pre-Series A, small, and shipping. A senior FDE here is the person we point to when a client's CTO asks "who's actually building this?" — and the answer needs to be unambiguous.

## What we offer

- Competitive base salary plus meaningful pre-Series A equity (senior-level grant)
- Remote-first with regular client travel (~30–50%, depending on engagement)
- Unlimited PTO
- 100% of employee medical, dental, and vision premiums covered by Titan

## About Titan AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Titan builds a secured, auditable AI platform with proprietary banking-native models and agents purpose-built for financial services.
- **Entity Type**: Private (early-stage startup, no disclosed funding round)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States (with additional office in Greenwich, CT)
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Arjun Sirrah (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: AI platform for banking / Financial Technology (FinTech)
- Target customers: Banks and financial institutions (B2B, Enterprise, highly regulated)
- Mission statement: Build AI that thinks like a bank – delivering explainable, auditable, and secure AI for banking operations, compliance, and credit.

## Products & Services
- **Titan Banking Platform**: A unified interface providing access to proprietary banking-small language models (SLMs), general-purpose LLMs, and built-in Banking Agents. Handles tasks like consumer credit processing, regulatory compliance, bank operations, and product inquiries. Key features include auditable chain-of-thought, human-in-the-loop workflows, role-based access control, and SOC 2 compliance. (Type: SaaS / AI Platform)
- **Titan Banking Agents**: Agentic workflows that leverage Titan’s banking models to automate reviews, exception processing, and deep research – designed to mirror how top-performing bankers reason. (Type: AI Agent / Workflow Automation)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Headcount of 14 employees (as of mid-2026) with 23.8% monthly growth; 12 active job openings.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Board includes **Blake Paulson** (former Acting Comptroller of the Currency). The company’s team includes former senior bank operators, OCC regulators, and AI engineers from KeyBank, Laurel Road, and other fintechs.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid hiring (+71.4% job postings quarterly), early preference results showing 80% banking task preference over ChatGPT and 97% over Gemini 2.5 Pro, and strong domain credibility with a founding team that scaled Laurel Road to $1B+ annual originations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Banking-native ontology**: Models are not fine-tuned general LLMs – they embed proprietary banking logic, regulatory knowledge, and credit risk reasoning from the ground up.
- **Auditability & explainability**: Full logging of prompts, chain-of-thought, and decisions – designed for examiner review and regulatory defense.
- **Security & compliance**: SOC 2 compliant, AES-256 encryption, RBAC, MFA, and a dedicated data protection layer that never uses customer data to train public models.
- **Human-in-the-loop**: AI recommends, bankers approve – preserving domain expertise and accountability.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling enterprise sales to mid-size and large banks (evidenced by hiring Account Executives and Client Partners).
- Expanding the proprietary model’s performance lead through continuous training on banking-specific data and the Banker Trust Index evaluation.
- Growing the team across engineering (Forward Deployed, AI, QA) and go-to-market roles.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, fast-moving startup (14 people) with deep banking expertise – you’ll work directly with former regulators, bank CTOs, and fintech veterans.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on applied AI, full-stack development, and forward deployment inside customer environments. High ownership and impact – engineers build features that directly affect how banks operate.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Not explicitly stated; HQ in New York with a Greenwich, CT office – likely in-office or hybrid for many roles.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to shape AI for a heavily regulated industry, work on explainable/auditable models, and learn from a team that includes a former Acting Comptroller of the Currency.

## Sources
1. [titanbanking.ai](https://www.titanbanking.ai/)
2. [titanbanking.ai/about-company](https://www.titanbanking.ai/about-company)
3. [linkedin.com/company/titan-os](https://www.linkedin.com/company/titan-os)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/titan-ai](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/titan-ai)
5. [titanbanking.ai/why-titan](https://www.titanbanking.ai/why-titan)

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