Senior Forward Deployed Engineer | AI / Cloud Infrastructure / Security | London
Want to join an ambitious, well-funded AI start-up as an early engineering hire, working directly with experienced founders and some of the world's most sophisticated businesses?
An early-stage, London-based AI company is looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to take ownership of complex enterprise deployments and help shape how its technology is delivered to major organisations.
Founded by experienced entrepreneurs with a successful track record of building technology businesses, the company is developing privacy-first AI products designed to help organisations scale their internal knowledge, expertise and decision-making.
Having recently secured significant institutional backing, the business is entering an exciting stage of growth, working with enterprise customers across highly regulated industries.
Security and privacy are fundamental to the product. You'll be deploying sophisticated AI technology into complex customer environments where data protection, governance and reliability are non-negotiable.
You'll be joining a small team, working closely with the founders and taking significant ownership of the technical relationship with enterprise customers.
About you
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7+ years' experience across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering or solutions engineering
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Strong hands-on experience with Azure, particularly cloud architecture, networking, identity and security
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Experience with Terraform, Bicep or ARM templates
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Strong understanding of enterprise security practices, IAM, private connectivity and cloud governance
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Experience deploying production systems within complex enterprise environments
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Ideally, experience working with financial services, banking or other highly regulated industries
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Strong application engineering ability, ideally with Python or a similar language
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Confident communicator who can lead technical conversations with senior engineers, architects, security teams and executives
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Comfortable representing a business independently in front of clients and making technical decisions without constant oversight
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High ownership, commercial awareness and the ability to operate in a fast-moving start-up environment
What you'll be doing
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Taking ownership of enterprise deployments from initial technical discovery through to production
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Acting as the primary technical representative for major customers
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Working directly with client infrastructure, networking, identity and security teams
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Designing and implementing secure deployment architectures across Azure and private customer environments
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Navigating complex enterprise security requirements and overcoming the technical challenges of deploying new AI technology
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Troubleshooting across cloud infrastructure, application code, networking and integrations
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Building reusable deployment tooling, infrastructure-as-code and security processes
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Working closely with the founders and product engineering team to turn customer feedback into improvements to the platform
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Helping establish a repeatable, scalable deployment model as the business expands
Why this opportunity?
Join a business being built by founders who have done it before.
This is an experienced founding team with a proven track record of building successful technology businesses. You'll have direct access to the founders, significant autonomy and the opportunity to establish a critical engineering function while the company is still at an early stage.
The technology presents a particularly interesting engineering challenge. You're deploying AI into highly sensitive enterprise environments, where privacy, security and reliability are fundamental to customer adoption.
You'll work with sophisticated organisations, solve complex technical problems and help build the foundations for how the company scales.
What's on offer?
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Competitive senior-level package
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London-based, with flexible working arrangements
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Join an early-stage, heavily funded AI business
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Work directly with experienced second-time founders
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Significant ownership over enterprise deployments and technical decisions
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Exposure to major enterprise customers across regulated industries
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Opportunity to shape deployment architecture and engineering processes
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Be part of a small, ambitious team building cutting-edge AI technology
If you're a technically strong cloud or software engineer who enjoys working directly with customers, navigating complex security environments and taking ownership of challenging deployments, I'd be keen to speak with you.
