Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI Deployments

Globalwebindex; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health cash plan

Pension matching

Work from home budget

Job summary

Globalwebindex (GWI) is seeking a Lead/Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with flagship accounts in London, delivering end-to-end deployments of our agentic AI platform. You’ll own production deployments, data pipelines, and bespoke integrations, acting as the bridge between customer needs and product roadmap.

You’ll lead complex environments, collaborate with sales, and mentor mid-level engineers while traveling across the UK and Europe.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering, solutions engineering, or a customer-facing technical role — with meaningful time spent shipping production code in complex enterprise environments.
• Demonstrable experience deploying AI or data-heavy products into large organisations — real production deployments, not just POCs.
• Strong full-stack or backend engineering fundamentals: Python essential, plus comfort across APIs, SQL, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), and data pipelines.
• The ability to work through ambiguity and turn it into a concrete technical plan.
• Clear communication across technical and business audiences — you can tailor the same idea for an engineering lead and a commercial stakeholder.
• Willingness to travel to client sites across the UK and Europe (approximately 30–50% of the time).

Responsibilities

• Embed with our Tier 1 enterprise accounts and own end-to-end deployments of our agentic AI platform — from discovery through to production, including bespoke integrations, data pipelines, and workflow automations.
• Lead AI agents into production in complex environments (legacy systems, security, compliance), turning cutting-edge capability into measurable business outcomes.
• Partner with Enterprise AEs in late-stage sales cycles — leading proof-of-concept builds and assessing technical readiness to de-risk and accelerate the close.
• Surface patterns from the field and feed them back to product and engineering, acting as the bridge between customer reality and roadmap.
• Build out the FDE practice as it scales: repeatable deployment playbooks, success metrics, and mentoring mid-level FDEs.

Skills

Software engineering

Solutions engineering

Customer-facing technical role

Production code in enterprise

AI deployments

Full-stack backend

Python

APIs

SQL

Cloud infrastructure

Data pipelines

Ambiguity management

Technical communication

Travel readiness

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Globalwebindex (GWI) is seeking a Lead/Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with flagship accounts in London, delivering end-to-end deployments of our agentic AI platform. You’ll own production deployments, data pipelines, and bespoke integrations, acting as the bridge between customer needs and product roadmap.

You’ll lead complex environments, collaborate with sales, and mentor mid-level engineers while traveling across the UK and Europe.