Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

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About the role

Join us as a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to spearhead the technical direction and delivery of complex, innovative AI projects. You will act as a technical expert, applying your skills across various projects from AI strategy to client‑side deployments, while ensuring architectural decisions are sound and reliable. This role demands a balance of deep technical expertise and strong leadership, focusing on driving innovation, fostering team growth, and building reusable solutions across the organisation.

What you’ll be doing

  • Setting the technical direction for complex ML projects, balancing trade‑offs, and guiding team priorities.
  • Designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable, scalable ML/software systems and justifying key architectural decisions.
  • Defining project problems, developing roadmaps, and overseeing delivery across multiple work‑streams in often ill‑defined, high‑risk environments.
  • Driving the development of shared resources and libraries across the organisation and guiding other engineers in contributing to them.
  • Leading hiring processes, making informed selection decisions, and mentoring multiple individuals to foster team growth.
  • Proactively developing and executing recommendations for adopting new technologies and changing our ways of working to stay ahead of the competition.
  • Acting as a technical expert and coach for customers, accurately estimating large work‑streams and defending rationale to stakeholders.

Who we’re looking for

  • Technical expertise among peers, capable of deep knowledge on particular topics and broad enough to solve almost any problem.
  • Strong Python skills and practical experience operationalising models using frameworks such as Scikit‑learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
  • Expertise in at least one major Cloud Solution Provider (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS) and leadership in building full‑stack web applications.
  • Hands‑on experience with containerisation tools like Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes.
  • Ability to manage and coach a team of engineers, setting team‑wide development goals to improve client delivery.
  • Ability to find novel, clever solutions for project delivery and take ownership for successful project outcomes.
  • Excellent communication skills, able to proactively help customers achieve their goals and guide both technical teams and non‑technical stakeholders.

We strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions and sexual orientations.

Benefits

  • Unlimited Annual Leave Policy
  • Private healthcare and dental
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Family‑Friendly Flexibility & Flexible working
  • Sanctus Coaching
  • Hybrid Working

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About the role

Join us as a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to spearhead the technical direction and delivery of complex, innovative AI projects. You will act as a technical expert, applying your skills across various projects from AI strategy to client‑side deployments, while ensuring architectural decisions are sound and reliable. This role demands a balance of deep technical expertise and strong leadership, focusing on driving innovation, fostering team growth, and building reusable solutions across the organisation.

What you’ll be doing

  • Setting the technical direction for complex ML projects, balancing trade‑offs, and guiding team priorities.
  • Designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable, scalable ML/software systems and justifying key architectural decisions.
  • Defining project problems, developing roadmaps, and overseeing delivery across multiple work‑streams in often ill‑defined, high‑risk environments.
  • Driving the development of shared resources and libraries across the organisation and guiding other engineers in contributing to them.
  • Leading hiring processes, making informed selection decisions, and mentoring multiple individuals to foster team growth.
  • Proactively developing and executing recommendations for adopting new technologies and changing our ways of working to stay ahead of the competition.
  • Acting as a technical expert and coach for customers, accurately estimating large work‑streams and defending rationale to stakeholders.

Who we’re looking for

  • Technical expertise among peers, capable of deep knowledge on particular topics and broad enough to solve almost any problem.
  • Strong Python skills and practical experience operationalising models using frameworks such as Scikit‑learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
  • Expertise in at least one major Cloud Solution Provider (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS) and leadership in building full‑stack web applications.
  • Hands‑on experience with containerisation tools like Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes.
  • Ability to manage and coach a team of engineers, setting team‑wide development goals to improve client delivery.
  • Ability to find novel, clever solutions for project delivery and take ownership for successful project outcomes.
  • Excellent communication skills, able to proactively help customers achieve their goals and guide both technical teams and non‑technical stakeholders.

We strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions and sexual orientations.

Benefits

  • Unlimited Annual Leave Policy
  • Private healthcare and dental
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Family‑Friendly Flexibility & Flexible working
  • Sanctus Coaching
  • Hybrid Working

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Posted: May 18th, 2026