Forward Deployed AI Engineer

About this role

About Accelerant
Accelerant is a data-driven risk exchange connecting underwriters of specialty insurance risk with risk capital providers. Accelerant was founded in 2018 by a group of longtime insurance industry executives and technology experts who shared a vision of rebuilding the way risk is exchanged – so that it works better, for everyone. The Accelerant risk exchange does business across more than 20 different countries and 250 specialty products, and we are proud that our insurers have been awarded an AM Best A- (Excellent) rating. For more information, please visit www.accelerant.ai.


**Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Location:
Remote (flexible within U.S.)


The Role
We're building an AI-powered operating system for how work gets done at Accelerant – across Actuarial, Finance, Legal, Ops, Risk & Compliance, Underwriting, and every function in between. You'll own what gets built, weigh in on what gets bought, and what gets automated out entirely.


This role exists now because we're past the "prototyping" phase. We need someone who can turn the best ideas and prototypes into productionized shipped solutions whether they are custom AI apps, agents, skills/plugins or automating workflows.


You’ll partner closely with Business teams to identify the biggest sources of manual grind, automate them using modern AI and workflow tools, and scale proven solutions across the enterprise. You'll own end-to-end delivery — from technical architecture decisions (orchestration frameworks, RAG patterns, vector stores, agent design) to production code to operational reliability. You'll have the tools, the cloud budget, and the autonomy to actually do it.


This Is a High-Autonomy, High-Impact Role For Someone Who**

• You see an inefficient process and can't leave it alone. You believe in quick iterations and working towards building the right solutions.
• You've shipped AI-enabled solutions into production
• You've been building...