Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer

KPMG is hiring a Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer for its Clients, Technology & Innovation (CT&I) organization to lead a pod of AI-native full-stack engineers while shipping production code alongside them.

What you'll do:

• Own end-to-end solution architecture and technical direction for the pod, with golden evaluation sets, regression harnesses and red-teaming before release.
• Write and ship secure production code weekly and harden systems for enterprise scale and reliability.
• Lead and mentor the pod from problem framing and MVP to deployed workflow, in two-to-six-week delivery cycles.
• Run discovery, working sessions and demos with audiences from engineers to CIOs, CISOs and CFOs, and steer pilots into long-term adoption.
• Build testing and deployment harnesses for hybrid LLM and rules-based model configurations.

What you'll need:

• 7+ years shipping secure production software for data, ML and AI-native applications in Python, Go, Rust or Java.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams; founder or early-stage startup experience is a strong plus.
• STEM bachelor's degree or eight years of equivalent experience; operating scalable systems on Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Deep familiarity with agent frameworks, coding harnesses (Claude Code, Cursor), Model Context Protocol and model evaluation.
• A verifiable portfolio or shipped codebase; ability to travel domestically.

Full details and application on the official KPMG careers page.