Forward Deployed Engineer (Bankrate)

• We’re looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed directly with our business teams and ship the AI systems that change how Bankrate operates
• Your clients are internal: Human Resources, Marketing, and Commercial. Your job is to walk into their workflows, find the highest-leverage problems, and build the agents, tools, and integrations that solve them
• You report to the Head of AI Transformation. This is an individual-contributor role for a builder, not a manager
• Embed and ship. Sit with a business team, learn how they actually work, and build the AI system that changes it
• You own the problem end to end: architecture, code, deploy, and the relationship with the people who use what you build. Nothing gets handed off. A few problems in flight to give you a sense of the work:
• Autonomous Customer Support Agents that resolve tier-1 issues on their own and escalate to humans only where judgment is required
• Automated AI Training Pathways that give every Bankrate employee a personalized route to fluency, built once and scaled across the company
• Paid Media Optimization Agents that watch spend, test creative, and reallocate budget faster than any human team could
• Build net-new and integrate. Some problems need software that doesn’t exist yet. Others need AI wired into the systems we already run. You’ll do both, and you’ll know which one the moment calls for
• Move fast and fail faster. You prototype in hours, put things in front of real users in days, and kill what isn’t working without ego. Speed is the strategy. The landscape shifts under you and you keep up
• Operate with the full agentic toolkit. Agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex), AI APIs, vector databases, prototyping platforms (v0, Lovable, Replit), and automation layers (Zapier, n8n)
• You reach for whatever gives you leverage, including tools that shipped last week
• Design agents that hold up in production. Reliable, auditable, and keeping humans in the loop where they belong. The work has to run when you’re not in the room
• Compound the wins. What you learn on one engagement becomes the pattern every other engagement inherits. You make the whole office better, not just your own project

Benefits

• Hybrid Schedule & Flexible PTO: Take advantage of 3-4 days in-office per week and 1-2 WFH days per week (varying by team), and a robust Paid Time Off program that includes logging off for “Winter Week.”
• Family Support, Planning, and Fertility: Our benefit offerings support every unique path to parenthood including fertility, egg freezing, adoption, surrogacy, parental bonding, and more.
• Mentorship Culture: Find a mentor, be a mentor, say yes to something new. This is a place where you’re guaranteed to build connections that extend past your immediate team and even your tenure at RV.
• Purpose & Community: We empower employees to make an impact for causes they care about, and we invest heavily in systemic impact through nonprofits like Road to Hire.
• World-Class Wellness: In addition to the on-site amenities at HQ, our unique wellness benefits include free therapy sessions and counseling for U.S. employees and family members.- This is not a role for people who want to build software for fun. It’s for people who want to solve real business problems and fundamentally change how a company operates. Demos don’t count
• Problem-solver first. You’re energized by a messy business problem, not a clean spec. You want to change how a company operates, and code is your means, not the point
• 2 to 8 years building and shipping. You’ve put production software in front of real users and owned the consequences. Where you trained matters less than what you’ve shipped
• AI-native to the core. You already build with agents, AI tools, and APIs as a default, not an experiment. This is how you work, not something you’re curious about
• High agency, high urgency. You don’t wait for permission or perfect requirements. You find the leverage, build, ship, and iterate
• Comfortable in ambiguity. You get productive in unfamiliar systems and domains without much hand-holding, and you bring structure where there’s none
• A real collaborator. You work shoulder to shoulder with non-technical business teams, translate their problems into systems, and bring them along so what you build actually gets used