Deployment Associate, Fast Forward Program; Accounting​/Finance Background

** ABOUT MODER
** Moder is an AI-enabled, human-powered digital services company built for mortgage, insurance, and financial services. We meet clients where they are, tackle the toughest industry challenges, and build solutions that hold up in production environments where the stakes are real. Our partnership with Palantir brings Foundry and AIP to clients who need to move from AI experimentation to operational reality.

We have served clients across the full mortgage lifecycle - from origination through capital markets - and are now expanding that same operational depth into insurance and broader financial services. We RAISE the bar every day:
Results, Accountability, Innovation, Service, Excellence.
** THE OPPORTUNITY
** Moder is building its first cohort of Forward Deployment Engineers and we are doing it intentionally, carefully, and with you at the center of the design. The Deployment Associate, Fast Forward Program is a full-time, structured launch pad for recent graduates who want to do more than start a career. We are looking for people who want to help build one.

Associates in this Cohort will be the first people to go through  Foundry Academy , the first to deploy on live client engagements, the first to stress-test our training curriculum, and the first to tell us what works and what doesn't. Your feedback will directly shape how Moder trains, develops, and grows FDEs for years to come. That is not a responsibility we take lightly and it is not an opportunity that comes around often.

This program is for engineers who are technically sharp and genuinely curious about how AI gets deployed in the real world, not in demos, but inside financial institutions with messy data, legacy systems, and high stakes. If you want to understand how AI changes how a business operates, this is where that learning happens.
* Associates are not observers. They are contributors. From week one, you will be working on real problems, inside real platforms, alongside experienced engineers who are counting on your thinking - not just your output.
*** WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
** Most early-career programs rotate you through assignments until someone decides you are ready for real work. This is not that. Here is what you are actually signing up for:
** You Build the Playbook
** Cohort 1 doesn't follow a fully established program - they help create it. Your experience, your feedback, and your capstone work will directly shape Moder's FDE onboarding, training curriculum, and deployment methodology. Future cohorts will learn from what you build.
** Hybrid in Philadelphia - Rooted, Not Remote
** You will work from Moder's Philadelphia hub at least three days per week. This is intentional. The best learning happens in proximity - with mentors in the same room, on whiteboards, in real-time conversations. You will also travel periodically to client sites, which means your context for the work is always grounded in reality, not theory.
** A Rare Combination of Technical and Human Skills
** FDE work sits at the intersection of engineering and client relationships. You will build data pipelines and you will present them to a CFO. You will configure AI workflows and you will train the people who use them. The combination of technical depth and communication clarity is rare - and we will develop both deliberately.
** A Career Path That Is Already Designed
** The Fast Forward Program is the entry point to the FDE track. There is no ambiguity about where it leads. Associates who perform become Associate FDEs. The path from there is clear:
Associate FDE | FDE | Senior FDE | Principal FDE. Advancement is tied to what you deliver, not how long you have been here.
** You Will Be Inquisitive - And Rewarded for It
** We are not looking for people who wait to be told what to explore. The engineers who thrive here ask the uncomfortable question in the client meeting, chase the anomaly in the data no one asked them to investigate, and push back on assumptions with evidence. Curiosity is not a soft skill here - it is a job requirement. We will actively create space for it.
** WHAT YOU WILL DO
** Associates work across three interconnected areas simultaneously. These are not phases - they happen together, from the beginning.
** Essential

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

**** Technical Delivery & Platform Engineering
*** Work on active Palantir Foundry deployments alongside senior FDEs, owning defined scopes within real client engagements - not sandbox projects.
* Build data…