Forward Deployed Engineer - Investment Systems
<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>COMPANY OVERVIEW</strong></p>
<p>KKR is a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management as well as capital markets and insurance solutions. KKR aims to generate attractive investment returns by following a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing world-class people, and supporting growth in its portfolio companies and communities. KKR sponsors investment funds that invest in private equity, credit and real assets and has strategic partners that manage hedge funds. KKR’s insurance subsidiaries offer retirement, life and reinsurance products under the management of Global Atlantic Financial Group. References to KKR’s investments may include the activities of its sponsored funds and insurance subsidiaries.</p></div><h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>POSITION SUMMARY</strong></span></h1>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">KKR is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to help bring AI into the daily work of teams across the firm. This is a hands-on engineering role with a builder's mindset: you are an embedded extension of the engineering team that works directly with investment teams to understand how their work gets done, then design, build, and ship production AI systems that improve it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Your “customers” are internal: colleagues across private equity, credit, infrastructure, real estate, insurance and capital markets. You will sit with these teams and observe their workflows firsthand. You will identify where fragmented data, repetitive tasks, and manual handoffs slow high-value work, and translate ambiguous business challenges into well-defined technical problems. You will then own the solution end to end, from architecture, code, data integration, to evaluation, deployment, and adoption, in close partnership with your direct engineering teammates, product, AI, data, security, and platform colleagues.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The best solutions you build will not stay one-off. You will convert successful implementations into reusable skills, tools, agents, and workflow components that scale across teams and strengthen the firm’s broader AI platform. If you are an engineer who wants your code to shape how a leading global investment firm works, this role offers rare scope and impact.</span></p>
<h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>RESPONSIBILITIES</strong></span></h1>
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<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Engage teams across KKR’s businesses to observe how work is delivered, going beyond documented requirements to understand information flows, decision points, and day-to-day realities.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Identify high-value opportunities where AI can remove bottlenecks, connect fragmented data, eliminate repetitive work, or improve the speed and quality of decisions.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Translate loosely defined business challenges into clear technical problem statements, solution architectures, and delivery plans.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Design, build, and ship production-grade AI applications, agents, integrations, and workflow automations using modern languages such as Python or TypeScript.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Connect structured and unstructured data across enterprise systems and make it reliably usable by AI-enabled applications through pipelines, retrieval systems, and well-designed interfaces.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Create, test, and maintain reusable AI skills, tools, prompts, connectors, evaluation frameworks, and workflow components that can be shared across teams and business units.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Establish rigorous evaluations and success metrics that measure accuracy, reliability, adoption, time saved, decision quality, risk reduction, and business impact.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Move rapidly from discovery to prototype to production while upholding high standards for security, data protection, privacy, compliance, reliability, and maintainability.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Decompose organic, often undocumented workflows into modular capabilities — data, decisions, actions, and controls — and determine where AI, deterministic software, or human judgment is the right tool.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Drive adoption through documentation, training, direct user feedback, and close, ongoing partnership with the teams you serve.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Convert successful high-touch implementations into repeatable engineering patterns and scalable platform capabilities, feeding insights into the firm’s broader AI roadmap.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Challenge conventional practices constructively, helping teams reimagine workflows rather than simply automating existing steps.</span></li>
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<h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>HOW YOU'LL WORK WITH THE BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY TEAMS</strong></span></h1>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Forward Deployed Engineers and technology teams own the engineering side of AI enablement for business partners: architecture, integration, data pipelines, security implementation, and production operations.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Paired with a business-embedded AI Solutions counterpart, you will be in the room together from the first discovery conversation, and you will stay engaged together through deployment testing with users, measuring results, and iterating. Your job is to make sure what gets built solves the right problem, fits how people actually work, meets the firm's control requirements, and gets used. Along the way, you will also work with product owners, data teams, information security, and corporate functions such as legal and compliance, tailoring your communication to each audience.</span></p>
<h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>QUALIFICATIONS</strong></span></h1>
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<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A strong software engineering foundation, with hands-on experience designing, building, and operating production systems — at least or equivalent demonstrated capability.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or comparable modern programming languages, with experience across APIs, cloud platforms, distributed systems, and enterprise integrations.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Practical experience building applications with large language models — including agents, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, and orchestration — and evaluating their behavior.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Facility with data: pipelines, databases, retrieval systems, and unstructured content, and the judgment to make imperfect enterprise data usable.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Genuine commercial curiosity and a strong desire to learn KKR’s businesses — how investments are evaluated, how decisions are made, and which outcomes matter.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Comfort operating in ambiguity: the ability to take a vague problem, ask good questions, uncover needs users may not initially articulate, and converge on a concrete solution.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The range to move fluidly between writing code, discussing architecture, observing workflows, and engaging senior business stakeholders.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Act as a conductor across a diverse set of stakeholders — including business teams, business-aligned product and engineering, AI platform product and engineering, and data operations — to align priorities, resolve dependencies, and drive projects forward to successful delivery.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A commitment to engineering quality — testing, observability, security, privacy, and responsible AI practices — even when moving quickly.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Clear communication and a collaborative, low-ego working style, with the ability to give and receive direct feedback.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience deploying AI or data-intensive systems in large enterprises or regulated environments.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Exposure to private markets, financial services, or other domains with complex, judgment-heavy workflows.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience partnering directly with senior business stakeholders to shape and deliver technical solutions.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A track record of turning bespoke solutions into reusable platforms, frameworks, or internal products.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience with evaluation frameworks, observability tooling, or governance practices for LLM applications.</span></li>
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<h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE</strong></span></h1>
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<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">AI solutions you built are running in production and used every day by the teams they were designed for.</span></li>
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