Founding FDE Manager for Enterprise AI Deployments

Anthropic Limited; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Flexible working hours

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Job summary

Anthropic Limited is seeking a founding leader for its Forward Deployed Engineering function in Southern Europe. This player-coach role combines hands-on technical review with high-velocity people leadership to scale a world-class FDE team that partners with strategic customers.

You will hire and mentor engineers, set standards for customer engagements, and build repeatable playbooks to turn one-off successes into repeatable patterns while influencing product direction and strategy across

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering or related roles.
• 2+ years of people management experience in services/FDE.
• Experience building orgs from 0→1, not just inheriting one.
• Experience with enterprise customers on technical implementations.
• Executive presence to engage stakeholders and engineers.
• Strong written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Hire, develop, and retain a world-class team of Forward Deployed Engineers.
• Provide technical mentorship and career growth for team members.
• Oversee customer engagements and allocate resources across projects.
• Collaborate with Sales, Product, and Engineering on pre-sales and delivery.
• Review architectures and code to ensure production-grade solutions.
• Lead discovery sessions, prototype solutions, and debug complex issues.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Cloud architectures

Enterprise deployments

Communication

Technical mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Anthropic Limited is seeking a founding leader for its Forward Deployed Engineering function in Southern Europe. This player-coach role combines hands-on technical review with high-velocity people leadership to scale a world-class FDE team that partners with strategic customers.

You will hire and mentor engineers, set standards for customer engagements, and build repeatable playbooks to turn one-off successes into repeatable patterns while influencing product direction and strategy across