Forward Deployed Engineer

Search Chain Partners; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Search Chain Partners is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with enterprise customers, turning AI capabilities into production systems that solve real problems. You will sit between engineering, product and the customer to scope problems on-site and ship solutions quickly.

You will embed with clients, design and deploy AI-powered solutions (LLM apps, agents, retrieval pipelines, integrations), own delivery end to end, and translate field insights into product feedback.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering experience (Python/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs, APIs, and data tooling.
• Strong communication skills; able to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Embed with enterprise customers to understand workflows, data and goals.
• Design, build and deploy AI-powered solutions (LLM apps, agents, retrieval pipelines, integrations).
• Own delivery end to end, from prototype to production rollout.
• Work with customer engineering and business teams to drive adoption.
• Turn field insights into product feedback and reusable tooling.
• Troubleshoot issues in live customer environments.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

LLMs

APIs

Data tooling

Strong communication

Travel willingness

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Docker

Job description

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll work directly with customers to turn AI capabilities into production systems that solve real problems. You'll sit between engineering, product and the customer: scoping problems on-site, building and shipping solutions fast, and feeding what you learn back into our product.

What you'll do:

• Embed with enterprise customers to understand their workflows, data and goals
• Design, build and deploy AI-powered solutions (LLM apps, agents, retrieval pipelines, integrations)
• Own delivery end to end, from first prototype to production rollout
• Work with customer engineering and business teams to drive adoption
• Turn field insights into product feedback and reusable tooling
• Troubleshoot issues in live customer environments

What we're looking for

• [2+] years of software engineering experience, ideally in Python and/or TypeScript
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs, APIs and modern data tooling
• Strong communication skills and comfort working with technical and non-technical stakeholders - A bias for action: you like shipping, iterating and owning outcomes
• Willingness to travel to customer sites

Nice to have:

• Experience in consulting, solutions engineering or a customer-facing technical role
• Background in financial services / healthcare
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure)