Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Chertsey; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced software/AI professional to join our Product Engineering and Platform teams. You will synthesize findings from usage patterns into clear, reproducible evaluations, benchmarks, and artefacts that raise product and platform quality.

You will build tools and evaluation patterns that apply across multiple use cases, collaborate with SMEs, and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

• Experience building AI applications, agents, or evaluation systems.
• Ability to reason about model behaviour in complex workflows.
• Strong communication between technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Synthesize findings for Product Engineering and Platform teams.
• Turn usage patterns into reproducible evaluations and artefacts.
• Build repeatable tools and evaluation approaches to raise quality.

Skills

Software engineering

AI fundamentals

AI applications

Cross-functional collaboration

Clear communication

Product sense

Problem solving

Tools

AI toolchains

Evaluation systems

Job description

prompts, agents, and workflow designs to understand system behaviour and unlock real value - not just theoretical improvements.Synthesise findings for our Product Engineering and Platform teams, turning real usage patterns into clear, reproducible evaluations, benchmarks, and technical artefacts that improve product and platform quality.Build repeatable tools, patterns, and evaluation approaches that raise the quality bar across multiple use cases - not just one-off fixes.Operate with strong judgment in ambiguous environments, balancing immediate technical problem-solving with longer-term systemic improvement.Build relationships across our engineering and product communities, serving as a trusted technical partner to individuals and teams alike.These are some of the key components to the position:You'll thrive here if you have strong software engineering and AI fundamentals - whether that's from experience in a startup, or a product focused role in a larger org. Software engineer, ML
engineer, data scientist, or equivalent. Product Managers, BAs or Technical Programme Managers keen to return to a builder role. A track record of shipping production systems end-to-end is a strong plus.What will you bring to the team?Experience building AI applications, agents, or evaluation systems, with the ability to reason clearly about model behaviour in complex workflows.Comfort working directly with highly experienced functional SMEs and translating their challenges into concrete technical signals.Fluency moving between prototyping, debugging, evaluation design, and cross-functional collaboration - sometimes all in the same day.Working across every layer of the stack - Able to switch between configuring a connector in an admin panel to prompting an agent to contribute code back to our underlying platform.Clear communication across technical and non-technical audiences - you can explain what you found and why it matters.High agency and a strong product sense,
with a bias toward building things that last rather than one-off fixes.AI First problem solving, deeply experienced with AI tools to drive fast solution creation, able to balance model usage to maximise ROI, everything from coding to design and more. Bonus: Familiarity with complex market place businesses. Experience as an early-stage startup engineer or in a previous FDE style role. None of these is a dealbreaker - we're more interested in how you think than what you've already shipped.At JET, this is how we play Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment. Being the best at what we do isn't just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable - our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side. At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and
behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers' loyalty, again and again. Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we're building a customer-first culture which enable us to stay one step ahead of the competition.Inclusion, Diversity & BelongingNo matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.What else is cooking?Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our career site