Forward Deployed Engineer

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

A production engineer embedded in a client's enterprise to build and scale AI platforms, focusing on deployment outcomes such as time to value, reliability, adoption, and ROI.

Key Responsibilities

• Own account level AI transformation across the client enterprise - from platform selection and architecture through enterprise wide adoption and reinvention at scale.
• Hold full accountability for deployment outcomes at account level: time to value, reliability, adoption, and ROI; report directly to client executive leadership.
• Drive ambiguity to resolution at account scale: translate executive level strategic intent into production AI systems operating across the enterprise.
• Define enterprise AI architecture standards and governance frameworks across the client organization, spanning identity, data, security, multi platform integration, and AI lifecycle management.
• Own the relationship with client CTO, CFO, and CISO: shape AI investment strategy, board level narrative, and multi year reinvention roadmap.
• Codify reusable patterns and playbooks that define what enterprise AI reinvention looks like - assets that scale across markets, industries, and the FDE practice globally.
• Lead executive workshops, board level engagements, and cross practice architecture reviews that shape the client's AI reinvention trajectory.
• Define the FDE practice model: engineering standards, deployment playbooks, talent development frameworks, and the capability architecture that the practice is built on.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications:

• Engineering experience with cloud native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
• Deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production environments.
• Experience with AI platforms - OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, plus open source models, including building abstraction layers to manage multi provider pipelines.
• Experience leading software engineering teams: overseeing delivery, allocating resources across workstreams, and owning the professional development of direct reports.
• Demonstrated end to end delivery ownership in a client embedded environment; internal projects, vendor labs, or team only deployments do not qualify.
• Proven ability to articulate business value: can quantify the impact of deployments in terms a CFO would recognize and act on.
• Experience presenting to and building trust with senior client stakeholders, CTO, CFO, or CISO level.
• Non linear profiles are expected and welcomed; assessment is based on demonstrated deployment experience and outcome ownership, not CV pattern matching.

Locations

• London
• Berlin
• Madrid
• Paris

Benefits

Competitive basic salary plus extensive benefits, including up to 25 days' vacation per year, private medical insurance, and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work. Flexibility and mobility are required, with onsite time at client locations as needed.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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