AI Forward Deployed Engineer
Location: Remote, USA
Employment Type: Full-Time
Benefits Offered: Vision, Medical, Life, Dental, 401K
Gross Annual Base Salary: USD 120,000 - 149,000
Additional variable compensation and benefits may apply. Total compensation is based on experience, skills, and location using objective, job-related criteria.
Summary
As an AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you are a hands‑on bridge between SensibleAI capabilities and real‑world customer outcomes. You design, implement, and harden cross‑product AI solutions—spanning SensibleAI Forecast, Studio, and Agents, Genesis Blocks, and the OneStream core platform. You partner with Delivery and Engineering to validate value, improve reliability, and codify reusable patterns that others can adopt.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Apply OneStream, AI, and enterprise software expertise to help customers deliver transformative AI solutions within the OneStream ecosystem.
- Play a key role in hands-on delivery for AI-focused implementations, expansion projects, and established deployments—not just early-stage POCs.
- Interact, collaborate, and present to a diverse set of stakeholders (developers, sponsors, executives) to deliver AI-focused implementations.
- Play a growing role in orchestrating the evolving SensibleAI Portfolio (Forecast, Studio, Agents) with OneStream core to deliver modular solutions tailored to complex financial and analytics requirements.
- Produce reusable demos, implementations, checklists, workflows, best practices, and concise instructional videos that enable Presales, Delivery, Partners, and customers to leverage your learnings.
- Diagnose and resolve AI solution field issues; document decisions and trade-offs; support Delivery and Partner teams with structured guidance.
- Collaborate with AI Delivery to harden solutions for production and with AI Engineering to channel learnings and product gaps back into roadmaps.
- Engage directly with finance and data teams; work with partner FDEs to increase capability and consistency across the ecosystem; facilitate workshops and office hours.
Required Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, or relevant combination of education and experience.
- 0-2 years of software engineering experience, with a focus on data science, AI, or machine learning concepts.
- 1-2 years of industry experience in Applied Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning.
- 1-3 years of experience delivering/implementing enterprise software solutions in FP&A/CPM/EPM or data/AI platforms, including at least 1 year in customer-facing build roles.
- Demonstrated success contributing to POCs or early implementations that transitioned to scaled rollout or productized assets.
- Strong SQL; data modeling and ETL/ELT; REST APIs, identity/security basics.
- Experience in Python and/or C#; automation and packaging; familiarity with containerization is a plus.
- Experience in producing insightful data visualizations of complex concepts and dataset.
Preferred Education and Experience
- Direct experience with OneStream implementations or building Genesis Blocks / Marketplace content.
- Direct experience within a prior Forward Deployed Engineering role.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Translate complex technical concepts into business value for finance stakeholders.
- Depth in one or more areas (e.g., forecasting, LLM apps, CPM modeling) with breadth across data, integrations, and platform operations.
- Hypothesis-driven approach; comfort operating with ambiguity; strong documentation and diagramming habits.
- Work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Delivery, CS, Presales, and Partners; give/receive design feedback.
- Design for reuse; produce assets others can adopt; contribute to internal standards.
- Apply data privacy and governance guidelines in solution design.
- Comfortable engaging and presenting to management level executives from time to time.
Travel (remove if not applicable)
- Up to 25% travel may be required for discovery, workshops, readouts, and early implementation milestones.
Who We Are
OneStream is how today’s Finance teams can go beyond just reporting on the past and Take Finance Further™ by steering the business to the future. It’s the only enterprise finance platform that unifies financial and operational data, embeds AI for better decisions and productivity, and empowers the CFO to become a critical driver of business strategy and execution. Our vision is to be the operating system for modern finance, digitizing core financial functions and empowering the CFO to become a critical driver of business strategy. To learn more visit www.onestream.com.
Why Join The OneStream Team
- Transparency around corporate structure, salary, and benefits
- Core value of customer success
- Variety of project work (not industry-specific)
- Strong culture and camaraderie
- Multiple training opportunities
Benefits at OneStream
OneStream employees are passionate, hardworking individuals who go above and beyond to keep our customers happy and follow through on our mission statement. They consistently deliver the best and in turn, we make every effort to keep them cared for and happy. A sample of the benefits we provide are:
- Excellent Medical Plan
- Dental & Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short & Long Term Disability
- Vacation Time
- Paid Holidays
- Professional Development
- Retirement Plan
All candidates must be legally authorized to work for any company in the country where this position is located without sponsorship.
OneStream is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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