Forward Deployed Engineer

About usEncord is the universal data layer for AI that helps 300+ AI teams train and run models on the right data. Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production. Trusted by Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more.

We're an ambitious team of 100+ working at the frontier of AI and have raised $60M in Series C funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator. The roleWe're looking for an exceptional Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join our product engineering team. This is an engineering-first role: FDEs are the technical owners who take the Encord platform into our most strategic and advanced customer environments, working directly with clients' engineering teams to identify problems and design, build, and ship the solutions that solve them.As an early member of the Forward Deployed team, you'll have an outsized impact on shaping a critical function for Encord and our customers, in a role that combines hands-on engineering with direct client ownership.

You’ll do tough system design calls under real customer load, and customers will trust you to get their hardest integration and workflow problems actually solved. You’ll operate autonomously, defining your own path to a solution, managing client relationships directly, and feeding what you learn straight back into the product roadmap.What you'll doDesign and ship high-quality, production-grade code that integrates Encord into customers' most complex data and ML pipelinesOwn system design decisions for customer deployments, balancing correctness, scalability, and speedWork directly with clients' engineering teams to diagnose problems, scope solutions, and ship fixes end-to-endBuild data integrations and technical solutions that support customer onboarding, adoption, and scale at paceCommunicate technical plans and tradeoffs clearly to both engineering counterparts and non-technical stakeholdersOperate with a high degree of autonomy: identify the right problem to solve, decide how to solve it, and see it through with minimal oversightCollaborate with product and engineering to feed customer insights back into the roadmapHelp define and scale the Forward Deployed function as an early team memberWho we're looking forDesign and ship high-quality, production-grade code that integrates Encord into customers' most complex data and ML pipelinesOwn system design decisions for customer deployments, balancing correctness, scalability, and speedWork directly with clients' engineering teams to diagnose problems, scope solutions, and ship fixes end-to-endBuild data integrations and technical solutions that support customer onboarding, adoption, and scale at paceCommunicate technical plans and tradeoffs clearly to both engineering counterparts and non-technical stakeholdersOperate with a high degree of autonomy: identify the right problem to solve, decide how to solve it, and see it through with minimal oversightCollaborate with product and engineering to feed customer insights back into the roadmapHelp define and scale the Forward Deployed function as an early team memberExperience

Requirements

3 - 8 years in a software engineering roleExperience building or working with data integrations and APIs; Python is a big plusStrong written and verbal communication skillsAbility to thrive in ambiguity and take ownership without being told what to doPrior experience at a high-growth startup is a plusWhy EncordCompetitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a high-growth startupStrong in-person culture - most of the team works from our London office 4+ days/week25 days annual leave + UK public holidaysAnnual learning & development budgetTravel for customer visits, events, and conferences across the UK and EuropeCompany lunches twice a weekMonthly socials & bi-annual team offsitesFind Jobs in United Kingdom on Arbeitnow