Forward Deployed Engineer
GWI
| Company | GWI |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | London |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 5 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
Location : London
Office requirement : 2 days in the office - Significant travel required
Employment type : Permanent
Seniority level : Principal
At GWI we’re always looking for extraordinary people who thrive on making an extraordinary impact. Right now we’re looking for an Forward Deployed Engineer to play a key role in our Solutions Consultants Team in London. If that’s you, and making a difference gets you out of bed in the morning, keep reading. It could be the start of something, well, extraordinary.
Sounds great, what will I be doing? 🤔
As our Lead / Principal Forward Deployed Engineer you'll be embedded directly with our most strategic accounts, owning the end-to-end technical deployment of our agentic AI platform. This isn't a support role, and it isn't a solutions consultant with a fancy title — you'll write production code, own technical outcomes, and be the reason our biggest customers succeed and expand. You'll operate with the autonomy of a founding engineer and the commercial instinct of a GTM leader.
A few things you'll be responsible for:
👉 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.
It's also fun; shaking things up is what working for GWI is all about. You'll need to be flexible, comfortable with continuous change, and working in a high-tempo environment.
What do I need to bring with me? 🧳
You’ll need to be able to demonstrate the core skills this role requires. You don't have to tick all the boxes right away; the important thing is that you’re willing to learn. Here’s what the team will be looking for in you:
👉 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).
Nice to have:
👉 Hands-on experience with LLM deployment, AI agents, or agentic workflow automation.
👉 A background in a high-growth B2B SaaS or AI-native company.
👉 Experience in one or more of GWI's core verticals: financial services, media & agencies, consumer goods, or technology.
👉 Prior experience in an FDE, solutions architect, or technical account management function at a company with a named-account enterprise motion.
Equally important is attitude. We want people who think big (to make an impact), ask why (to find a better way), and show respect (to everyone, at every level, all the time). Those are our values, and they’re a big part o
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