KPMG is currently seeking a Director, Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Clients, Technology & Innovation (CT&I) organization.
Responsibilities:- Partner with leadership to define technical standards and scale engineering delivery across EdgeCos, account teams, and industry teams
- Write and ship production-ready code daily while taking direct ownership of the most complex, high-priority production challenges
- Expand the library of reusable assets, tools, and accelerators, championing modern developer tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Lovable where permitted
- Champion rigorous enterprise production standards, including context engineering, golden sets, evaluation frameworks, regression harnesses, and secure, auditable code
- Direct executive working sessions with key leaders (CIOs, CISOs, CFOs) and engineers, building trust through transparent risk and progress communication
- Mentor Managers, Senior Associates, and pod leads, directly coaching team members while actively building to scale overall talent density and quality
- Architect production pipelines that route data dynamically between stochastic Large Language Models (LLMs) for generative tasks and Type 1 models (e.g., Jev) for low-latency, deterministic, rules-based operations
- Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment
Qualifications:- Minimum ten years of recent, hands-on experience building, hardening, and operating secure, end-to-end production data, ML, and AI-native applications across Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud (GCP).
- Minimum five years of experience leading and mentoring high-performing engineering teams in a startup-velocity environment; founder or early-stage startup experience is a strong plus
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university in a STEM field or twelve years of equivalent practical experience
- Deep practical knowledge of frontier models, agent frameworks, Model Context Protocol, and developer productivity tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable)
- Full-stack capability with deep expertise in modern production languages (Python, Go, Rust, or Java) alongside structured evaluation discipline and model strategy
- Exceptional storytelling ability to communicate complex concepts to CIOs, CISOs, CFOs, and skeptical engineers alike, combined with a strong bias toward owning product outcomes
- Verifiable portfolio, GitHub repository, or code walk-through demonstrating shipped work
- Ability to travel domestically as needed
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https://kpmg.com/us/en/how-we-work/pay-transparency.html/?id=7966_9_26 California Salary Range: $171000 - $311000
