Forward-Deployed AI Systems Engineer

DeepCamp; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

4 days/week

Team lunches

Learning budget

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Encord is seeking an exceptional Forward Deployed Software Engineer (FDSE) to join our engineering team in London. This engineering-first role places you at the technical helm, taking production software into our most strategic customer environments and solving complex problems with users and their engineers.

You will own design decisions across the stack, build scalable solutions, and work autonomously to shape product surfaces and deployment strategies while collaborating with cross-functional

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience with strong CS fundamentals.
• Experience building production software across the stack, from product-facing applications and APIs to backend services and data workflows.
• Strong system design judgment and experience making architecture decisions for complex software.
• Strong coding skills in a modern language; Python is a plus.
• Evidence of owning technical problems end to end, from design through production.
• Strong product judgment, technical communication, and stakeholder management.
• Experience working directly with users, customers, or external engineering teams is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production software for complex data, ML, and application environments.
• Own system design decisions for deployments, balancing correctness, scalability, performance, and speed.
• Work directly with customers and their engineering teams to understand ambiguous problems and define the right technical solution.
• Build across the stack, from APIs and data workflows to backend systems and product-facing functionality.
• Own deployments from technical scoping through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
• Turn recurring customer problems into reusable tooling and product capabilities.
• Debug complex production issues across reliability, performance, and data flow.
• Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Operate with high autonomy and own problems end to end.
• Feed deployment insights back into Product and Engineering, and help shape the FDSE function as the team grows.

Skills

Python

System design

Ownership

Communication

Job description

Encord is seeking an exceptional Forward Deployed Software Engineer (FDSE) to join our engineering team in London. This engineering-first role places you at the technical helm, taking production software into our most strategic customer environments and solving complex problems with users and their engineers.

You will own design decisions across the stack, build scalable solutions, and work autonomously to shape product surfaces and deployment strategies while collaborating with cross-functional