Forward Deployed Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineer — Series A-Track Deep Tech Startup

London (In-Person) | 996 Schedule — San Francisco Model

The Opportunity: One of the most exciting early-stage companies in the UK right now is on a mission to eliminate the last great barriers to progress in the physical world. While software has transformed how we communicate, shop, and entertain — industries like aerospace, healthcare, and energy are still being held back by outdated, manual systems. This company is changing that.

They're building the infrastructure that lets complex, real-world work move at software speed — and they're looking for builders who want to be at the centre of it.

The Backing: This isn't a bet — it's a sure thing in the making. The company recently closed a $4.5M seed round that was 14× oversubscribed, backed by Tier-1 VCs with founding teams from Coinbase, Reddit, Klarna, and Spotify. A Series A is on the immediate horizon. You'll be joining at the exact right moment — early enough to have genuine equity impact, late enough to know the fundamentals are proven.

The Team: World-class. Former founding engineers from unicorn companies, and talent from X, Google, Amazon, and Yandex. High standards, high trust, zero politics. This is a team that wants to win — and has the track record to do it.

The Role: This is not a ticket-taker position. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you are the bridge between customers and product. You will sit with users, decide what should exist, build it end-to-end, and put it in their hands — fast.

You'll own real product surface area from Day 1. That means customer calls in the morning, shipping to production in the afternoon.

What you'll actually do:

• Embed with customers to understand their real workflows — not what they say they want, but what they actually need
• Design and build end-to-end user workflows, from UI through to backend logic and data
• Translate messy, real-world processes into clean, intuitive software
• Integrate AI-powered features — LLMs, agents, model-backed APIs — into production workflows
• Write the spec, build it, ship it, own it

What We're Looking For

Technically:

• Strong TypeScript and modern frontend (React or equivalent)
• Backend services in Python
• Production AI integration experience (LLMs, agents, model-backed APIs)
• Ability to reason about complex workflows — not just CRUD

Culturally:

• You want ownership, not a job description
• You're comfortable with ambiguity and evolving requirements
• You can hold your own on a customer call with non-technical domain experts

Strong plus:

• Founder or ex-founder background
• Palantir, Ramp, Scale, or similar forward-deployed / solutions engineering experience
• Fellowship alumni: EF, YC, Antler, or equivalent
• Early-stage or stealth startup experience

The Deal:

• 📍 In-person, London — visa sponsorship available
• ✈️ Relocation fully covered — visas, meals, and tools handled
• ⏱️ 996 schedule (San Francisco model) — this is a high-intensity, high-reward environment for people who want to build something that matters
• 🚀 Equity at a pre-Series A valuation with 14× oversubscribed seed momentum behind it

If you want a 9-to-5, this isn't it. If you want to build something that changes how the physical world operates — and you want to do it with some of the best engineers in the room — let's talk.