About Forward
Forward is a consulting firm that works with independent consultants form around the world to help startups build their engineering organizations.
About the Work
Company Stage: Seed
Keywords: ETL, LLMs, Python
Term: 3-6 months
Hours per week: 40
Budget: $125-$150/hour
Timeline: Immediate
Geographic Constraints: NYC-based candidates strongly preferred
Context:
We’re working with a seed stage company that is building software for insurance underwriters. They’re using langchain that compile data for underwriters on a per policy basis and then a fine-tuned LLM to offer up conversational interface that underwriters can use to better understand the viability of a given policy.
They’re looking for a data engineer to help them build out their ETL infrastructure. They’d love to find someone who can come into their office in flatiron 3 days a week.
You’d be working alongside the CEO, the CTO, a web-focused engineer, and an ops-focused engineer. If you’re open to it, there’d be an opportunity for you to take a full time job after the first 3 months.
About You
Roughly in order of importance:
- You have experience building data pipelines
- You’re interested in working with AI
- You can make it to flatiron 3 days a week
- You have early stage startup experience
- You have 7+ years experience
If this sounds interesting to you, we’d love to hear from you here.
Research shows that certain folks are less likely to apply for work when they don’t meet 100% of the outlined qualifications. If this role excites you, we want to hear from you. If not and you’re looking for contract work, feel free to reach out to us or take a look at our other roles.