Forward Deployed Engineer
About the job
- Professional experience in both front-end and back-end software engineering.
- Experience building, deploying, and operating applications in an enterprise cloud environment such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience using AI-native developer tooling such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot to accelerate software design, implementation, and refactoring while managing output quality and maintainability.
- Experience directly collaborating with business stakeholders and end users to translate business requirements into working software solutions.
- Strong proficiency in modern programming languages and web stacks, including Python, TypeScript or JavaScript, modern frontend frameworks, and Structured Query Language.
- Experience supporting and maintaining applications in production.
- Interest in learning about financial markets, investments, and commodities trading.
- The position is not open to immigration sponsorship now or in the future.
- Work side-by-side with domain experts as an embedded technical partner and full-stack builder to build, deploy, operate, and improve systems supporting risk/reward optimization for commercial, trading, and capital allocation activities.
- Lead requirements gathering, prototyping, full-stack development, and follow-through to deliver analytics, applications, and artificial intelligence solutions that improve decisions.
- Collaborate with existing technical support resources to maintain stable and reliable performance for applications and systems used by the Risk Optimization team.
- Champion AI-native software engineering methodologies to accelerate output and expand the team's technical operational range.
- Partner with Risk Optimization team members to contribute expertise to the development and deployment of models and analytics.
- Develop and support generative artificial intelligence workflows and agents.
- Collaborate with enterprise architecture leaders and support groups to maintain identity, security, data, and platform governance standards across deployed systems.
- Experience operating as an embedded engineer within a business unit or trading or investment environment with high autonomy and direct decision rights.
- Willingness to learn unfamiliar systems and business areas and collaborate with other groups to accomplish complex goals.
- Experience designing and implementing generative artificial intelligence workflows, skills, and agents.
- Experience designing and deploying end-to-end data pipelines and database architectures, including relational databases, document databases, or cloud data warehouses.
- Experience with Snowflake, dbt, or other modern data-stack orchestration tools.
- Experience with identity, security, and access governance.
- Experience managing and supporting systems or codebases built by a third party.
About the company
Koch Industries is a large, private, diversified conglomerate that operates in energy, chemical processing, and manufacturing. It started from an innovation that turned heavy crude oil into gasoline and grew through long‑term investments rather than short‑term market moves. The company generates value by refining fuels and producing chemical products, and it operates Georgia-Pacific, a major maker of paper and building products. Its business model relies on reinvesting most earnings back into the company to fund steady, long‑term growth rather than paying out frequent dividends or seeking quick profits. Koch differentiates itself from many competitors by staying privately owned, which reduces pressure from public markets and enables longer‑range planning. The company’s goal is to build scale and durability across its holdings by sustainable, multi‑decade growth rather than rapid, episodic gains.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total Funding
$985.2M
Headquarters
Wichita, Kansas
Founded
1940
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Koch raised $224.4 million in equity financing on March 10, 2026, preserving dry powder.
- Koch's Africa fertilizer foothold expands global phosphate reach from Morocco's Jorf complex.
- Closed Tacoma gypsum plant concentrates capital into stronger Georgia-Pacific assets and higher-margin lines.
What critics are saying
- DOJ opened a fertilizer antitrust probe in March 2026, risking criminal charges and damages.
- Farmers filed class actions in March and June 2026 against Koch Agronomic Services.
- Georgia-Pacific will close Tacoma's gypsum plant on October 30, 2026, cutting 125 jobs.
What makes Koch Industries unique
- Private since 1940, Koch reinvests earnings for decades, not quarterly Wall Street optics.
- Koch Fertilizer expanded into Morocco on June 30, 2026 through Jorf Fertilizers ownership.
- Georgia-Pacific and Koch Agronomic Services give Koch integrated positions across packaging and fertilizers.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
- Paid Vacation
- Professional Development Budget
- Fertility Treatment Support
- Parental Leave
- Adoption Assistance
- Hybrid Work Options