Forward Deployed Engineer

MBN Solutions; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work in London

Travel opportunities

Job summary

MBN Solutions in London is seeking 2–3 exceptional Forward Deployed Engineers to join a small, highly technical team. You will sit directly with enterprise customers, understand difficult real-world problems, design the solution and personally ship production software—often within days.

You’ll move between software engineering, systems architecture, AI and customer problem-solving, with field learnings feeding back into the core product. This role offers London hybrid work and significant travel.

Qualifications

• 1–5 years of software engineering experience with excellent coding fundamentals.
• Built and shipped production software in customer-facing or startup environments.
• Strong systems design and architecture fundamentals.
• Experience with modern AI/LLM tooling.
• Comfortable engaging with senior enterprise customers.
• Background as an early/founding engineer or Forward Deployed Engineer is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Sit directly with enterprise customers to understand real-world problems.
• Design the solution and personally ship production software.
• Move between software engineering, systems architecture and AI problem solving.
• Learn from field experience to feed back into the core product.

Skills

Production software

Systems design

AI tooling

Customer interaction

Startup experience

Tools

LLM tooling

Job description

This is one of the most interesting Forward Deployed Engineering opportunities I’ve seen in London.

We’re working with a heavily funded, early-stage Enterprise AI company building a platform designed to solve complex operational problems inside some of the world’s largest organisations.

They’re now looking for 2–3 exceptional Forward Deployed Engineers to join a small, highly technical team.

This is not Solutions Engineering.

It’s not pre-sales.

And it’s definitely not a role where you design something and hand it to another engineering team to build.

You’ll sit directly with enterprise customers, understand difficult real-world problems, design the solution and personally ship production software - Sometimes within days.

You’ll move between software engineering, systems architecture, AI and customer problem-solving, with what you learn in the field feeding directly back into the core product.

The profile

You’ll likely have 1–5 years’ experience and already be an excellent software engineer.

We’re particularly interested in people who have:

• Built and shipped production software in customer-facing or startup environments
• Excellent systems design and architecture fundamentals
• Experience with modern AI/LLM tooling
• The ability to operate comfortably with senior enterprise customers
• A genuine problem-first mentality rather than attachment to a particular technology

Backgrounds as an early/founding engineer, startup engineer or Forward Deployed Engineer are particularly interesting.

This role will suit someone who wants to be close to the customer, close to the code and close to the commercial impact of what they build.

London | Hybrid, typically 4 days in the office

Significant UK & international customer travel

If you’re an exceptional engineer who enjoys getting out from behind the screen, understanding the actual problem and then building the solution, I’d like to hear from you.