Forward Deployed Engineer

Southern Manufacturing & Electronics 2025; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Manufacturing & Electronics 2025 is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to lead AI deployments in factory settings. This full-stack role spans engaging customers, scoping problems, deploying solutions and ensuring the system works in live environments.

You will collaborate with backend, frontend and research teams to ship fixes, optimise imagery and lighting, and adapt features based on customer feedback.

Responsibilities

• Engage prospective customers and qualify leads across the full customer journey.
• Scope problems, deploy AI solutions, and fix issues in the field.
• Collaborate with backend, frontend, and research teams to ship fixes and redesign product features based on customer feedback.

Job description

We’re hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to lead the charge on implementing and operationalising our AI solutions in factories. You’ll be the person who makes our tech real for our customers – and makes sure it actually works.

This is a full-stack role! You’ll work across the entire customer journey, doing the jobs of multiple people and specialties in one: engaging prospective customers, qualifying leads, scoping problems, deploying solutions, and fixing things when they break.

One week, you’ll be the face of Matta, responsible for engaging with engineers and technicians at trade shows, bringing in leads alongside our CEO. The next, you’ll be deep in a factory, perhaps figuring out why our system is picking up too much static interference, or how to optimise the lighting to improve our images. You’ll roll up your sleeves and get problems sorted – collaborating with our backend, frontend, and research teams to ship fixes and redesign product features based on customer feedback.