Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Job Description Founding Forward Deployed Engineer 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 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 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. If you would like to explore this further get in touch!