Forward Deployed Construction Engineer (UK)

Brickanta; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel and accommodation covered

Equity

Job summary

Brickanta seeks a Forward Deployed Construction Engineer to deploy AI-enabled agents in UK customer workflows. You will build and evaluate agent routines on real documents, write integrations and data pipelines, and translate field learnings into repeatable platform components.

Starting part-time with onboarding in Stockholm, you’ll travel to customer sites regularly. Strong English, UK construction exposure, and software delivery mindset are essential.

Qualifications

• Real exposure to UK construction: site, project management, estimating, quantity surveying, bidding or procurement.
• Experience building and shipping software (Python and/or TypeScript), APIs, data pipelines, SQL.
• Strong analytical ability and a serious interest in modern AI systems.
• Excellent written and spoken English. No Swedish needed.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage UK accounts end to end, understanding workflow and extending agents to real documents and data.
• Run agents against real UK workflows and judge outputs for correctness, completeness and usefulness.
• Write code: integrations, data pipelines, prompts, eval harnesses and production-quality features.
• Define measurable success and capture production learnings for reuse in the platform.
• Feed product with field data, contract forms, and rules to accelerate future deployments.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

APIs

Data pipelines

SQL

Customer facing

Analytical thinking

English proficiency

Job description

Part-Time

Remote, United Kingdom

Forward Deployed Construction Engineer

Part-time to start · Remote, UK (onboarding in Stockholm)

The role

Most enterprise AI dies in the proof of concept. Forward deployed engineering is how we avoid that: you sit inside the customer’s workflow — on site, in the bid room, in the procurement process — and build until the work actually gets done differently.

In a new market, that also means teaching our agents how construction works here. An answer can look plausible and still be wrong in the way that matters on a real project: a JCT or NEC clause read the wrong way, a quantity that doesn’t match the bill of quantities, a requirement that misses the Building Safety Act. Your job is to spot that and turn the judgement into evals our systems can measure.

This is not consulting and it is not a demo role. You ship product: take a real bottleneck at a real contractor, build the agent workflow that removes it, prove the outcome in numbers, and bring what you learned back into the core platform.

What you’ll own

Deployments

Own named UK accounts end to end: understand the workflow, configure and extend our agents against their real documents and data, and get them into daily use.

Evaluation and ground truth

Run our agents against real UK workflows and judge the outputs on correctness, completeness and practical usefulness, not on whether they sound convincing. Turn edge cases and production failures into repeatable evals: reference outputs, scoring rubrics, failure taxonomies and expert-reviewed datasets.

Building in the field

Write code. Integrations, data pipelines, prompts, eval harnesses, automated graders and occasionally a whole new feature: whatever it takes to make the workflow work at that customer. Work out what needs human judgement, then engineer the rest away.

Measurable outcomes

Define what success means before you start, then prove it: hours saved, bids won, risks caught. Measurable results rather than technical milestones.

Feeding the product

Capture what only shows up in production here, from contract forms and measurement rules to how tendering and procurement really run, and turn it into datasets, reusable building blocks and roadmap. Each UK deployment should make the next one faster.

Who we’re looking for

Some combination of construction depth, technical depth and a liking for customers. The unusual profile matters more than the perfect CV.

Background

Real exposure to UK construction: site, project management, estimating, quantity surveying, bidding or procurement.

Experience building and shipping software (Python and/or TypeScript, APIs, data pipelines, SQL), or the raw ingredients and the drive to get there quickly.

Strong analytical ability and a serious interest in modern AI systems. We operate as an AI-first company.

Experience working directly with customers, or a clear appetite for it.

Excellent written and spoken English. No Swedish needed.

Mindset

You go to where the work happens — site visits, bid rooms, procurement meetings — instead of guessing from a backlog.

Extremely detail-oriented: you work through many cases without letting the quality bar drift.

Curious about why systems fail, not just whether they fail.

High ownership: you find the problem, build the fix and follow it into production.

You write clearly. At Brickanta, writing creates clarity and everything important gets documented, which matters even more when the team is in another country.

Comfortable with ambiguity and with being the only engineer in the room.

Snapshot

Location: Remote in the UK, with regular time on site at customers. You start with onboarding at our HQ in Stockholm alongside the team, then come back regularly. Travel and accommodation are covered.

Start: First half of 2027, about three months into our UK launch. Part-time to start (or a similar flexible setup), with the aim of going full-time as the market grows.

Level: Mid to senior. We care more about what you’ve built, on site or in code, than about years.

Comp: Competitive salary and equity — you’re early enough for it to matter.