Forward Deployed Engineer

Lead Forward Deployed Engineer AI / Product / Consulting Location: Hybrid

Job Type: Full-time

Level: Lead / Principal Individual Contributor

The Opportunity We're working with an innovative, global digital health technology business that partners with major organisations across the pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare sectors.

They are looking for a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer who can operate across three disciplines that are often split between different roles: consulting, product leadership and hands-on engineering .

You'll work directly with clients to understand complex business and technical challenges, determine what is worth building, and then personally take solutions from idea through to production.

This is not a traditional engineering role where you'll receive a fully defined backlog and focus solely on implementation. You'll be expected to shape the problem, make product decisions, build the solution and own the outcome .

The role would suit an experienced engineer who is operating at the forefront of AI development and is equally comfortable writing production code, challenging a product strategy, presenting to senior stakeholders and working directly with clients.

How You'll Work The role is built around three core areas:

Shape Work with business and technical leaders to turn ambiguous problems into clear, valuable and buildable opportunities.

You'll:

Lead discovery with business and technical stakeholders.

Separate the problem a client describes from the underlying problem they actually need to solve.

Structure ambiguity into clear hypotheses, options, trade-offs and recommendations.

Develop business cases around value, cost, adoption risk and expected outcomes.

Communicate effectively with both technical and executive audiences.

Decide Take ownership of what should be built and what shouldn't.

You'll:

Translate product discovery into a focused, outcome-driven roadmap.

Own scope, priorities, sequencing and trade-offs.

Create clear product documentation including problem briefs, PRDs, user stories and acceptance criteria.

Define and tr...