Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Indicium AI was Anthropic’s first European launch partner - and sits among a handful of organisations globally trusted by Anthropic to deploy Claude at enterprise scale. We are also one of the first four OpenAI partners in the UK, and Databricks Ventures has invested in our business and holds a seat on our board. Our engineers have access to the latest AI tools and models, partner technical teams, and early capability previews that the wider market does not.

We are deploying production AI systems into the world's most complex organisations across Financial Services, Energy, and Healthcare. We exist to make AI a genuine competitive advantage for our clients, not in a presentation but in production.

We invest seriously in our people. Every FDE at Indicium AI has access to Anthropic training, and a flexible learning budget to go with it. All of our staff are equipped with Claude licenses for Chat, CoWork and Claude Code. We are building a team of engineers who are at the frontier - and we support that with the investment to match.

AI is not just changing what software can do - it is changing how software gets built. The best engineering organisations in the world are rewriting their operating models around AI native development:
Claude Code in every workflow, agents across the SDLC, and a fundamentally different relationship between engineers and the tools they use. Most enterprises know this matters. Very few know how to make it work.

The Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Indicium AI embeds directly with client engineering teams to transform how they build software. You do not wait for a brief. You watch how a team actually works, find the problems they have not articulated yet, and ship the changes that make AI native engineering real - not as a presentation, but in their daily workflows and production pipelines.

This is a role for an experienced software engineer who is passionate about how AI is transforming the craft of software engineering. You will help organisations redesign their engineering capability - from how they use Claude Code and agentic tooling, to how they structure teams, review code, test, and ship. Then you will co-engineer alongside their teams to integrate these new ways of working into their product engineering workflows.

You will lead engagements at some of the most complex organisations in the UK. Technically, commercially, and in the room with engineering leaders who have built serious systems and are not easily impressed.

• Lead engagements that transform how enterprise engineering organisations build software - from discovery and assessment through to embedded co‑engineering and operational handover
• Design and implement AI native development workflows:
  Claude Code integration, agentic coding assistants, AI‑augmented testing, automated code review, and intelligent CI/CD pipelines
• Define and roll out operating models for AI native engineering across client organisations - covering tooling, process, team structure, and best practice at scale
• Co‑engineer with client product engineering teams, working shoulder to shoulder to integrate new ways of working into their existing codebases and delivery cadence
• Own the client technical relationship at senior engineering leadership level - you are the person the VP Engineering or CTO calls, not one of the people copied on the email
• Navigate organisational complexity - procurement, security, resistant teams, shifting priorities - without losing delivery momentum
• Identify and shape new opportunities within existing client relationships - commercial awareness is part of the role, not separate from it
• Codify repeatable patterns and playbooks for AI native engineering transformation that let the practice…