Forward Deployed Engineer

numi partners with a fast-growing, founder-led AI startup building autonomous agents for some of the world's largest engineering and infrastructure enterprises, to find their next Forward Deployed Engineer.

This is a rare seat at the sharp end of a genuine first-mover product. It's a ~15-person, profitable, founder-owned business that has spent the last year pivoting from tooling into a full agentic platform, is already live with major enterprise pilots showing strong retention, and is joining at a pivotal moment as it scales fast.

You'll sit shoulder-to-shoulder with the founder and the company's biggest customers, translating what enterprise clients actually need into what gets built, then owning that build end-to-end. When something breaks, you're the one at the table with the client, fixing it.

What we need:

A computer science degree, or an equally strong, hands-on CS background. This one is non-negotiable. Serious, demonstrable coding ability: this is a builder role first, so pure research or data-science-only profiles won't be the right fit. Forward Deployed / Applied AI pedigree, ideally from a frontier AI company. Startup instincts over pure enterprise polish, comfortable with ambiguity and moving fast. The confidence to challenge a founder productively inside a direct, high-ownership culture.

Package: base salary is not capped for the right person, think significant six figures (up to circa £250k for a standout profile), plus meaningful early equity, joining ahead of a real inflection point for the business.

Location: London, office-based.

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