Forward Deployed Engineer

Who are we?

We’re transforming one of the last untapped industries where billion-dollar enterprises still rely on pen and paper. Inspections are critical to global safety, yet the technology behind them still mostly functions on manual processes.

Every day, over a million inspectors manually assess infrastructure, factories, and goods using processes that haven’t evolved in decades. The result? Delays, errors, and billions in losses. We’re using AI to change that - building a future where inspections are instant, precise, and fully automated.

We’ve raised an oversubscribed pre-seed round totalling $4M from tier one investors (who backed Stripe, Lime, Discord, Flexport).

We work with some of the largest Testing, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) companies globally increasing inspection throughput.

This is an incredible moment to join as we scale rapidly toward Series A.

About this role

We’re scaling fast, with major enterprise rollouts underway and a growing pipeline of global clients. Now, we’re looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our team and help us deliver transformative AI-powered solutions to enterprises.

This is not a standard engineering or consulting role. As the first hire in our deployment team, you’ll be at the intersection of product, engineering, and customer success. You’ll work directly with enterprise clients, helping them implement and scale our AI-powered platform to solve critical operational challenges. You’ll also identify opportunities to improve and enrich our product, ensuring it delivers maximum value to our customers.

If you’re excited about solving real-world enterprise problems with cutting-edge AI, working closely with customers, and driving change in complex organisations, we’d love to hear from you.

Why Join Us?

🚀 Own outcomes - You’ll be one of the first hires in our deployment team, with the opportunity to shape its future and grow into a leadership role.

📈 Fast growth - We’re scaling rapidly, and you’ll be a key part of our journey.

💡 High ownership - You’ll have autonomy and responsibility from day one.

⚡ High impact - Solve problems that matter, our customers say our product is a 'life-saver', and that they 'didn't know what I was doing before'.

🌍 Travel - Visit client sites across the UK, Europe, China and beyond to work face to face with our users and make things happen.

What You’ll Do:

· Work closely with enterprise clients to unblock implementation and change management, ensuring successful onboarding and rollout.

· Act as a bridge between clients and our product/engineering teams, feeding insights into the roadmap to ensure we’re solving the right problems with AI.

· Spin up demos or prototypes to keep conversations moving with clients.

· Own the end-to-end process of scaling our product within client organisations, from initial trials to full deployment.

· Travel on-site to meet stakeholders, see the product in action, and identify opportunities for improvement. Meeting inspectors at the largest ammonia plant in Europe or visiting manufacturing plants that account for 4% of the UK’s GDP

Who you are:

· You thrive in enterprise environments and know how to navigate complex organisations to drive change.

· You’re comfortable working being customer facing, managing stakeholders, and solving problems in real time.

· You act with high agency and can figure out the 20% that will drive 80% of the results.

· You’re willing to get in the weeds, whether that’s travelling to client sites, running workshops, or troubleshooting issues on the ground.

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Past experience in early-stage startups
• Proven that you can make changes happen in large organisations
• Background in enterprise SaaS, or industrial processes.
• Technical skills in our stack (Typescript, NextJS, NestJS, Python)
• Familiarity with AI/ML products for large-scale enterprises

Compensation + Benefits

💰 £80,000 - £120,000 + equity

🌍 Visa sponsorship available - We welcome top talent globally and will support the visa process. Please let us know when you apply.

🍽️ Dinners + lunch on Fridays paid for by Scope

What is it like to work here?

At our early stage, we care about reducing communication latency, and moving quickly. That’s why we work in person five days a week from our sunny office in Covent Garden. We believe being together helps us move faster and solve problems more effectively.

This isn’t a typical 9-5. Things will break. Priorities will shift. We embrace uncertainty and thrive in a fast-moving environment.

That said, we understand that life happens, and flexibility is important when personal situations arise.

If you’re looking for rigid structure, this might not be the place for you. But if you’re excited about shaping the future of AI-powered automation, taking true ownership, and working directly with enterprise customers to make an immediate impact, then this is the place.

Our Values

• Work Ethic – Creating value takes grit, dedication, and relentless effort.

• Excellence – We raise the bar every day and expect world-class execution.

• Humility – We are driven by the work we need to do, not by the work that we have done.

We believe great ideas come from diverse perspectives. We’re committed to building an inclusive team where everyone - regardless of background, identity, or experience - feels valued and empowered to do their best work. If you're excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply!