Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

Ocho; Belfast City District; Presencial; GBP 70 000 - 110 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

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Pension

Private medical

Generous time off

Resumo da oferta

Ocho in Belfast is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to work directly with demanding customers, solving real problems on a secure AI platform.

As lead FDE you'll own customer delivery from scoping to production, build on the platform, ensure adoption, and iterate with product teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering with Python, LLMs, and end-to-end ownership in regulated environments.

Qualificações

• Strong Python fundamentals and production experience.
• Hands-on experience deploying LLM-based apps.
• Experience with data pipelines, APIs and backend services.
• Ability to work with non-technical stakeholders.
• Daily use of AI tools for development.

Responsabilidades

• Understand customer problems and define scope.
• Build end-to-end solutions on the platform.
• Deploy LLM and agentic apps in secure environments.
• Own delivery from scoping to adoption.
• Provide feedback to platform and product teams.

Conhecimentos

Python

Production-grade systems

LLMs in production

Data pipelines & APIs

Customer engagement

Ferramentas

Claude Code

Cursor

Descrição da oferta de emprego

If you're an engineer who would rather be solving a customer's real problem than working through a backlog of tickets, this one is worth a read.

My client builds a secure AI platform used by highly regulated organisations across the UK. Their applications are already running in live environments for some very demanding customers, and they're hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to work directly with those customers.

As a Lead FDE you'll work closely alongside a small number of customer teams and own their problems end to end. You'll work out what they actually need, build it on top of the platform, get it into production and make sure people use it.

What you'll be doing

• Working directly with customers to understand how they operate and pin down the problems worth solving
• Building and shipping solutions on the platform end to end, from data integration and backend services through to the interfaces people use
• Getting LLM and agentic applications into production in secure environments, and keeping them running
• Owning delivery for your customers, from scoping through to adoption
• Feeding what you learn back to the platform and product teams

What you'll need

• Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python or comparable, with a track record of shipping systems into production
• Real, hands-on experience building with LLMs in production, not just a proof of concept
• Breadth across the stack: data pipelines, APIs, backend services, and enough frontend to put something usable in front of people
• Comfort working directly with customers, including non-technical stakeholders, and turning a loosely defined problem into something you can build
• Daily use of AI tools in how you build, including agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor

Nice to have

• Previous forward deployed, solutions engineering or consulting-style delivery experience
• Experience in government, public sector, financial services or other regulated industries
• Familiarity with RAG, agentic frameworks and protocols such as MCP
• Cloud experience (AWS, GCP or Azure) and containerisation with Docker or Kubernetes

• On offer is a competitive salary, share options, pension and private medical, plus one of the most generous approaches to time off I've come across in the Belfast market.