AI Forward Deployed Engineer — On-site with Hardware Teams

Nominal; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited PTO and sick leave

Free lunch, snacks, and coffee

Professional Development Stipend

In-office hardware lab with stipend

Annual company retreat

Parental leave (12 weeks)

Fertility and family planning stipend

Wellness stipend

Hardware sensor stipend

401(k)

Equity terms

In-office 5 days per week

Job summary

Nominal seeks an AI Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with hardware teams, building agentic workflows and skills for partners. You will translate requirements and test plans into actionable checks, run analyses, and investigate issues on real engineering programs.

You’ll spot patterns across customers, turning them into new skills and product capabilities, and you’ll travel to customer sites to prove value with measurable before-and-after results.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as a software engineer with strong Python and data skills.
• Hands-on experience building agentic workflows: tool use, prompting, skills, and validation.
• Comfort in front of customers: ability to run working sessions with senior engineers and earn their trust.
• Builder's instinct for reuse vs one-off and willingness to travel to customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Embed with hardware engineering teams, on site with partners, to build agentic workflows.
• Develop partner-specific workflows that translate requirements into checks and analyses.
• Identify patterns across customers and translate them into product features and capabilities.
• Demonstrate value to partners with measured before-and-after results on real programs.
• Be the technical voice of the customer inside the Hardware Intelligence team.

Skills

Python

Data analysis

Agentic workflows

Customer facing

Travel willingness

AI agents

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Codex

Job description

Nominal seeks an AI Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with hardware teams, building agentic workflows and skills for partners. You will translate requirements and test plans into actionable checks, run analyses, and investigate issues on real engineering programs.

You’ll spot patterns across customers, turning them into new skills and product capabilities, and you’ll travel to customer sites to prove value with measurable before-and-after results.