Foward Deployed Engineer

Job Description:

Leonardo UK Engineering is building internal AI Engineering Capability with engineers who deploy into Integrated Project Teams for short, scoped engagements. The role uses AI-enabled tooling to improve how a programme handles requirements, architecture, modelling, design, implementation and related engineering work. You will work within a small multi-disciplinary team in deep collaboration with our AI platform development team.

Where this vacancy is being recruited across more than one grade, the successful candidate will be appointed to a specific assessed grade, and the applicable salary range will be that associated with the grade of appointment.

What You’ll do

• Deploy into a project – help to discover, scope and solve high value engineering problems with the platform’s tooling.

• Collaborate with the AI platform team to make architecture and design decisions and with company process owners to change how we engineer

• Build custom applications, workflows and templates to enable development, improvement of engineering products – from specifications to product implementation to supporting engineering modelling & simulation tooling.

• Become an expert user: know the tooling’s opportunities and failure modes better than anyone else in the company.

• Skill up the IPT’s engineers as you go — the team should be more capable after you leave than it was while you were there.

What we’re looking for

• High agency. You are curious, purposeful and proactive – you learn quickly and find ways to navigate complex organisational structures.

• Outcome oriented and data driven – you care about effecting real change for our engineers and our end customers.

• Write well enough that anything you leave behind is usable by a stranger six months later.

• Comfortable being measured on whether other people adopted something.

• Able to enter an unfamiliar programme, earn trust with a variety of stakeholders quickly, and leave without having become indispensable.

What you’ll bring

• Familiarity with LLMs, SLMs and Agentic AI as a user
• Programming and scripting, such as MATLAB, Simulink, Python, Bash
• Product and systems thinking

Why this is interesting

• You work across several programmes a year instead of one, and see how the business really engineers.

• You become the company’s expert user of tooling that will be everywhere in three years.

• The process change your project exposes becomes the new company standard — you change the method, not just the output.

• Your output is measured in other people’s capability, which is a rarer and more portable thing to have done.

Security Clearance

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Why join us

At Leonardo, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We offer a comprehensive, company-funded benefits package that supports your wellbeing, career development, and work-life balance. Whether you're looking to grow professionally, care for your health, or plan for the future, we’re here to help you thrive.

• Time to Recharge: Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
• Secure your Future: Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Your Wellbeing Matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity).
• Rewarding Performance
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  All employees at management level and below are eligible for our bonus scheme.
• Never Stop Learning
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  Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and Linked In Learning.
• Refer a friend: Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
• Tailored Perks
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  Spend up to £500 annually on…