KPMG Military Fellowship - Forward Deployed Engineer

KPMG Military Fellowship - Forward Deployed Engineer

Are you ready to leverage your military experience while exploring how to adapt your skills to the corporate sector? As a KPMG Fellow, you'll have the chance to gain experience in our Strategy practice. This will give you a unique opportunity to work alongside our leaders and learn how KPMG helps our clients overcome complex challenges.

The KPMG Military Fellowship offers transitioning military service members a 6-12-week fellowship opportunity. During this time, Fellows will engage in a learning experience crafted by KPMG that prepares them for a career outside of the military. Fellows will gain first-hand experience designed to help them determine if a corporate career is the right choice for them.

Individuals selected for the KPMG Military Fellowship will be required to work within a commutable distance from the nearest KPMG office location and will be required to work from a KPMG office one day per month.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and ship full-stack AI-native systems, including user interfaces, APIs, data pipelines, and foundation model integrations, taking concepts rapidly from MVP to hardened production software.

• Own the architecture, security, scalability, and resilience of your workstream to ensure mission-critical systems operate seamlessly under live enterprise workloads.

• Execute within fast-paced two-to-six-week sprint cycles, iteratively refining solutions based on direct user and client feedback while surfacing technical constraints early.

• Implement robust evaluation disciplines and harness tooling across model workflows, capturing learnings into modular, reusable components for broader team adoption.

• Actively participate in client working sessions and discovery efforts, communicating technical concepts clearly and presenting working software through live demos and compelling narratives.

• Pair closely with fellow engineers to elevate engineering standards through disciplined code reviews, automated testing, comprehensive documentation, and shared best practices.

• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment.

Qualifications:

• Minimum four years of recent, hands-on experience shipping secure, full-stack production software focused on data, ML, and AI-native applications (proficiency in modern languages such as Python, Go, Rust, or Java).

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in a STEM field or equivalent practical experience.

• Proven track record hardening, scaling, and operating distributed systems within major cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud (GCP)), with hands-on experience in enterprise-grade deployments.

• Deep technical familiarity with frontier LLMs, modern AI coding harnesses (for example, Claude Code, Cursor), agent frameworks, and integration protocols (for example, Model Context Protocol or tool-use standards).

• Demonstrated expertise across the end-to-end model loop, including context engineering, prompt optimization, automated evaluation tooling, and strategic model selection.

• Entrepreneurial drive and comfort with ambiguity, characterized by strong technical leadership, a bias for shipping, and a history of owning outcomes (early-stage startup or founder experience is a strong plus).

• Strong stakeholder-facing presence with the ability to translate complex architectures to diverse audiences.

• A portfolio, GitHub repository, or code walk-through demonstrating shipped work is a plus.

• Ability to travel domestically as needed.

KPMG LLP ("KPMG") seeks a contractor in the United States to provide service to KPMG through one of our contracted employer/agency service providers. All applicants for any KPMG role are expected to act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold the firm's respectful and courteous work environment. All applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).

Nothing herein shall be deemed to create an employer-employee relationship between contractor and KPMG, nor shall contractor be considered a representative or agent of KPMG.

KPMG LLP and its subsidiaries comply with all local/state regulations in regard to displaying pay rate ranges. The pay rate range(s) displayed is/are specifically for those contracted who will perform work in or reside in the location(s) listed, if selected for the role. Pay is determined based on a variety of factors including market data, ranges, applicant's skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications (e.g. JD, technology), and specific location, for example. Additionally, applicants may be required to apply and become employed by a service provider utilized by KPMG, and final pay rate(s) and/or eligibility for additional benefits may be determined by such provider.

KPMG LLP, its subsidiaries, and its agency service providers (including, but not limited to, MBO Partners Inc., Magnit LLC, and TalentBurst Inc.) are equal opportunity employers/contractors. All qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex/gender, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, physical or mental handicap unrelated to ability, pregnancy, veteran status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Material job duties for this position are listed above. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, and safeguard business operations and company reputation. Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.