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Forward Deployed Engineer, Western Europe

LondonFull-time2026-11-09

Core

Embed directly with customer teams to design, ship, and own production-grade AI agents and workflows that solve real business bottlenecks and integrate into customer engineering orgs.

Role type

Senior IC forward-deployed AI solutions engineer

Builds

Production AI agents, coding-agent workflows, and AI-native applications integrated into customer systems

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Software Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, AI agents, tool-calling, eval harnesses, CI/CD, production debugging, system architecture, outcome ownership

Preferred skills

Customer-facing role experience, retrieval and context systems, AI-native coding workflows, forward-deployed engineer experience

Technologies

Grok models, Colossus supercomputers, MCP servers, X platform

Responsibilities

Lead discovery with customers to define success metrics and use cases; Design and ship production agents and AI workflows on live business processes; Get first versions live quickly and harden with rollout, monitoring, and iteration; Own production quality including tracing, evals, debugging, and latency/cost tradeoffs; Build supporting systems (tools, retrieval, CI gates) and integrate with customer auth/data/workflow; Measure outcomes like revenue, cost, and error rates; Work with Staff+ leaders and leave customers able to run built systems