Forward Deployed Engineer

MBN Solutions; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work in London

Significant UK & international travel

Job summary

MBN Solutions is seeking exceptional Forward Deployed Engineers for a London-based hybrid role. You will sit with enterprise customers, understand difficult real-world problems, design soluciones and personally ship production software—often within days.

Ideal candidates have 1–5 years' experience, proven ability to ship customer-facing software, and strong fundamentals in systems design, AI/LLM tooling, and working with senior enterprise customers.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship production software for enterprise customers.
• Work directly with customers to understand real-world problems.
• Move between software engineering, systems architecture and AI to craft solutions.

Skills

Production software ships

Systems design

AI/LLM tooling

Customer engagement

Problem-first mindset

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.