Software Engineer, AI Engineer (Applied​/Software)

Must hold current SC Clearance minimum (DV preferred).

Please note that we can only consider sole British Citizens for this role.

The hottest new job role in Tech - The Forward Deployed Engineer.

We're working with one of Europe's fastest-scaling technology companies in the sensing, AI, and communications space.

This is a genuinely hybrid role: part engineer, part embedded consultant. You'll spend significant time on-site with customers, in their operational environments, turning complex real-world problems into deployed technical capability. It's not a role for engineers who want to stay behind a desk shipping features against a fixed spec. The requirements here are ambiguous, environments are challenging, and you'll be trusted to work it out alongside the people using the product.

• Embedding with customers and end users to understand their missions, workflows and technical constraints — often before anyone's written a requirement down
• Designing and building pragmatic technical solutions across software, APIs, data, infrastructure and networks
• Rapidly prototyping to test ideas directly with users
• Owning deployment end-to-end — configuring, integrating, testing and troubleshooting across cloud, on-prem, and potentially disconnected/edge environments
• Acting as the feedback loop between customers in the field and the Product/Engineering teams back home

• Solid grounding in Linux, networking, APIs and modern software practices
• Real experience deploying and troubleshooting systems across cloud and/or on-prem environments
• Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes
• A track record of working directly with customers to understand problems and deliver solutions — not just build against someone else's brief
• Comfort owning ambiguous problems end-to-end, and making sound engineering trade-offs under pressure

Nice-to-haves: experience in live operational or mission-critical environments, AI/ML or geospatial/data engineering exposure, work in disconnected or bandwidth-constrained settings, or a background in defense, NS and emergency services or critical infrastructure.

Expect travel to customer site.

Salary is flexible for the right person. £65-85k
, with room to go higher depending on experience.

If this sounds like you or you know someone who fits the bill then get in touch.