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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Forward Deployed Engineer - **Company:** Koch, Inc. - **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Business Analytics Applications, Data Analysis, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Database, Databases, Cursor, Programming Tools, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Software Systems, SQL Databases, TypeScript, Web Application Frameworks, Workflow Management Systems, Data Logging, Google Cloud, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Snowflake, Generative AI, Front End Software Development, Data Pipelines, Programming Languages - **Published:** October 31, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/forward-deployed-engineer-atlanta-ga--29d89114-c46e-4b75-a173-e5f9e31c6319 ## About the Role English Language, Facebook, LinkedIn, Embedded Systems, Risk, Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Quantitative Analysis, Prototyping, Credit Risk, * Professional experience in both front-end and back-end software engineering. * Experience building, deploying, and operating applications in an enterprise cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP). * Experience using AI-native developer tooling (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, etc.), to accelerate software design, implementation, and refactoring while carefully managing the quality and maintainability of outputs. * Experience directly collaborating with business stakeholders and end users to translate business requirements into working software solutions. * Strong proficiency in modern programming languages and web stacks (e.g., Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, modern frontend frameworks, SQL). * Experience supporting & maintaining applications in production. * Interest and excitement for learning about financial markets, investments, and commodities trading. What Will Put You Ahead * Experience operating as an embedded engineer within a business unit or trading/investment environment with high autonomy and direct decision rights. * Willingness to learn unfamiliar systems and business areas and collaborate with other groups to accomplish complex goals. * Experience designing and implementing generative AI workflows, skills, and agents. * Experience designing and deploying end-to-end data pipelines and database architectures (relational, document, or cloud data warehouses), including experience with Snowflake, dbt, or other modern data stack orchestration tools. * Experience with identity, security and access governance. * Experience managing & supporting systems or codebases built by a third-party. At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate''s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy. ## Description * Employee Login * Home * Search Jobs * Life at Koch * Companies * Career Opportunities * How We Hire * Early Careers * Recruiting Events * Candidate Portal * Join our Talent Community * Employee Login * Learn More About Koch * Latest Koch News * English - US * Deutsch * English - US * Español - ES * Français - France * Polski, As a Forward Deployed Engineer on the Koch Risk Optimization team, you will serve as an embedded technical partner and full-stack builder who creates production-ready applications, data analytics solutions, and generative AI workflows to solve complex risk, financial, and investment challenges. You will collaborate directly with risk capability leaders, quantitative analysts, and technology support groups to rapidly prototype, deploy, and own high-impact technical solutions across market risk, credit risk, insurance and investments domains. If you are an entrepreneurial builder who leverages AI-assisted development tools daily to multiply your engineering velocity and wants direct ownership of mission-critical systems and solutions, this role offers an unmatched platform to create value. This role is not open to Immigration Sponsorship now or in the future. Our Team Koch Risk Optimization creates long-term value by driving risk-adjusted decision making, capital allocation, and risk absorption across Koch companies globally. Our team partners with commercial, trading, insurance, treasury and investment capabilities to optimize portfolio risk-return outcomes. We foster an entrepreneurial, high-agency environment that pairs deep domain expertise with cutting-edge technology to turn complex market and financial uncertainties into strategic advantage. What You Will Do * Embedded technical partner and full-stack builder: Work side-by-side with domain experts to build, deploy, operate, and improve systems that support risk/reward optimization for significant commercial, trading, and capital allocation activities across Koch. Take the lead on requirements gathering, prototyping, full-stack development and follow-through to deliver useful analytics, applications and AI solutions that result in better decisions. * Work across teams to enhance operational outcomes: Connect and collaborate with existing technical support resources to augment your capabilities, fostering partnerships based on mutual benefit and comparative advantage; drive towards a common goal of maintaining stable and reliable performance for applications and systems used by the Risk Optimization team. * Lead AI-native engineering practices to enhance our team's execution speed and expand our capabilities: Champion AI-native software engineering methodologies to accelerate output and expand technical operational range across the team. Partner with Risk Optimization team members to contribute additional expertise towards development and deployment of models and analytics so we can be more responsive to business needs. * Develop and support innovative Gen AI workflows and agents: The Risk Optimization team has deployed numerous Gen AI solutions across the enterprise, with an active project pipeline; you will play an integral role in our strategy to lead on the frontier of generative AI at Koch. * Uphold enterprise architecture standards: Collaborate with enterprise architecture leaders and support groups to maintain robust identity, security, data and platform governance standards across all deployed systems., * Strictly Necessary Cookies Strictly Necessary Cookies Always Active Strictly Necessary Cookies These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. 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