Forward-Deployed AI Engineer for Strategic Pre-Sales

IFS; Staines-upon-Thames; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IFS Copperleaf seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit across Sales, Product, R&D and Implementation, quickly standing up the product on customer data to prove value and delivering near-production prototypes as needed.

You will own the technical outcome from discovery to production adoption, articulating value and collaborating with Product to shape roadmaps and reusable accelerators for customers.

Qualifications

• Customer-facing discovery sessions, value conversations with stakeholders.
• Generalize customer solutions into reusable accelerators.
• Experience with AI/agentic engineering and modern tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own discovery, scoping, architecture, implementation, adoption and handoff for strategic solutions.
• Build small prototypes to test hypotheses within deal timelines.
• Engineer for security, reliability, observability and maintainability for production use.
• Develop solution specifications with the customer and feed insights to product.
• Collaborate with Product and R&D to shape roadmaps and reusable components.

Skills

Customer-facing

Commercial ability

Abstraction & reuse

AI & agentic engineering

Enterprise integrations

Asset-intensive domain

Travel up to 50%

Tools

ArcGIS/Smallworld

Maximo/EAM

SAP/Oracle ERP/PPM

PowerBI

REST APIs

Job description

IFS Copperleaf seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit across Sales, Product, R&D and Implementation, quickly standing up the product on customer data to prove value and delivering near-production prototypes as needed.

You will own the technical outcome from discovery to production adoption, articulating value and collaborating with Product to shape roadmaps and reusable accelerators for customers.