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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
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Founding Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI
Join an early-stage applied AI company modernising safety-critical industries through automation, software and AI.
As technical hire #2, you’ll work directly with the CTO, embedding with acquired businesses to understand how they operate, identify high-impact problems and build solutions that go live quickly.
The role combines forward-deployed engineering with building the core AI platform that will scale across the wider group.
What you’ll be doing
- Working directly with businesses to understand operational problems and identify opportunities for automation
- Building and shipping production software across full-stack applications, integrations, workflow automation and applied AI
- Working with LLMs, agents, document generation, computer vision, data pipelines and legacy systems
- Owning projects from discovery and scoping through to deployment, adoption and iteration
- Turning successful client solutions into reusable platform capabilities
- Helping shape the technical direction, platform architecture and future engineering team
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What they’re looking for
- A strong software engineer who can work independently and ship without hand-holding
- Experience building real production systems
- Strong product judgement and a practical approach to solving problems
- Confidence working with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfort with ambiguity, fast-moving environments and end-to-end ownership
- Willingness to travel across the UK during active transformation projects
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Experience in forward-deployed engineering, consulting, applied AI, cloud infrastructure or early-stage startups would be beneficial, but is not essential.
A rare opportunity to combine direct customer impact with founding-level ownership of the product, platform and future team.
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