Forward Deployed Engineer

Algosoup pods embed directly inside client businesses for weeks or months at a time. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you're the person who leads a project to make a system work in a real environment. You're both the builder and the communicator.

You'll continuously scope the problem with your pod's client, ship working versions, and grow the product toward the client's vision. You own the outcome, not just the task.

What you'll do

• ·Embed your pod inside a client organisation as the technical lead for a project
• ·Architect and ship AI-built systems into production: evals, integrations, deployment, iteration
• ·Own the full delivery cycle from ambiguous brief to running system
• ·Work directly with founders and senior stakeholders who aren't engineers
• ·Identify where AI creates real leverage in a client's workflow — and where it doesn't

Who you are

• ·An AI-native developer: you instinctively reach for frontier models, know their limits, and push past the obvious use cases
• ·Obsessive builder — you ship constantly and build for fun, operating at maximum leverage
• ·High agency, fast learner, strong technical taste
• ·Comfortable being the only technical person in the room with non-technical stakeholders
• ·Async-first and self-directed: you don't need a detailed spec to start moving

What you'll need

• ·A strong technical background — comfortable with all things software engineering, the full A-Z
• ·Entrepreneurial experience — a software product, model, consultancy, startup, or side project with real users; something you shipped (a major plus)
• ·An excellent communicator — able to engage with the client and their needs from start to finish