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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI
Join an early-stage applied AI VC backed Start-up transforming safety-critical industries through software, automation and AI.
As technical hire #2, you’ll work directly with the CTO and sit at the intersection of engineering, product and real-world operations. You’ll embed with acquired businesses, identify the highest-impact opportunities for technology, and build solutions that go into production with real users.
The problems you solve in the field will directly shape the core AI platform that scales across the wider group.
What you’ll be doing
- Embed with acquired businesses to understand workflows, bottlenecks and operational problems firsthand
- Design, build and ship production software spanning full-stack applications, integrations, workflow automation and applied AI
- Work across LLMs, agents, document generation, computer vision, data pipelines and legacy systems
- Own projects end-to-end, from discovery and technical design through deployment, adoption and iteration
- Turn successful point solutions into reusable platform capabilities that can scale across multiple businesses
- Work directly with the CTO on architecture, technical direction and engineering standards
- Help shape the product, platform and engineering team as the company grows
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What they’re looking for
- A strong software engineer who can independently take ambiguous problems from idea to production
- A track record of building and shipping real software used by customers or internal teams
- Strong product judgement and an instinct for solving the right problem, not just the technically interesting one
- Confidence working directly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable operating with significant ownership in an early-stage, fast-moving environment
- Willingness to travel across the UK during active transformation projects
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You’ll join at an early stage, with founding-level ownership, equity and direct influence over the technology, product and future engineering organisation.
If you’re interested in building applied AI against real operational problems rather than demos and prototypes, get in touch.
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