Forward Deployed Engineer
Job Description & Overview
About the Role
As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will work across product engineering and customer operations at a B2B compliance software company. You will turn real-world certification, inspection, and compliance workflows into reliable software and AI-powered tools that make these processes more effective.
What You'll Do
Work directly with customer teams to understand how certification, inspection, and compliance tasks are handled in practice.
Lead customer conversations, write specifications, and build end-to-end features across the frontend, backend, data model, and AI layer.
Own product areas from early discovery through production, collaborating closely with company leadership.
Ship software quickly, gather feedback by observing real users, and improve your work based on what you learn.
Use judgment to identify which customer requests can serve broader needs and which are specific to one workflow.
Analyze customer documents and work outputs to develop AI-powered workflows for scheduling, technical review, conformity assessment, field inspection, and document intelligence.
What We're Looking For
Three to six years of experience as a software engineer or product engineer, with a track record of shipping production software.
Full-stack development skills, including Python, TypeScript, React, Node.js, SQL, and experience with data models and cloud infrastructure.
Experience with AI/ML, large language models, or document intelligence is valuable.
Strong technical fundamentals and experience building products from an early stage or taking substantial ownership of a product area.
Comfort working directly with customers, learning unfamiliar operations, and translating ambiguous needs into practical software.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary is £100,000 to £160,000 GBP annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site, five days per week in London, England, United Kingdom.