Forward Deployed Engineer

We're working with a fast-growing, venture-backed AI company looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to join its UK team. This is a highly hands-on, customer-facing role where you'll work directly with enterprise clients to design, build and deploy agentic AI solutions into production. What you'll be doing:

• Build and deploy AI agents into real customer environments
• Translate business workflows into agent logic, actions and integrations
• Integrate with APIs, ERPs, portals, spreadsheets, email and other systems
• Write hands-on integration/glue code and prototypes
• Debug and improve live AI agents in production
• Lead technical working sessions with enterprise customers
• Work closely with Product and Engineering to improve the platform What they're looking for:
• Around 5–8 years' experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Applied AI, technical consulting or a similar hands-on role
• Experience shipping AI/agentic systems into production
• Strong knowledge of LLMs, MCP, APIs, agent frameworks, prompt engineering and evals
• Coding ability across Python, JavaScript, SQL and APIs
• Strong customer-facing and stakeholder-management skills
• Ideally experience within a venture-backed startup/scale-up
• Must be UK-based or willing to relocate to the UK
• Comfortable travelling to customer sites across the UK/EU during active deployments Location: UK Travel: Approx. 3 days/week during active customer deployments A great opportunity for someone who wants to remain deeply technical while working directly with customers and deploying cutting-edge AI into real-world production environments.