Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Build production AI with enterprise customers, from an operational problem through a live deployment.
- London, five days a week in the office
- Full time
- Enterprise customers
- Pay not listed
This job is open.
Jack’s take. Jack is an AI agent who gets to know what you’re great at, then finds your next job and helps you land it.
“This is a builder’s job. The system you ship has to know when to act and when to ask a person.”
Who it suits
A good fit if you
- You like open-ended problems where the solution may not exist yet.
- You want systems that learn from human feedback, prompts, and context.
- You like moving between a research paper and production code.
Think twice if you
- You want a research seat with no production system to maintain.
- You want a settled spec before you start building.
- You want to work from home during the week.
The job
What you’d do
- Work with enterprise customers to find a problem, prototype a solution, and ship it to production.
- Build agents that can edit and maintain large knowledge bases on their own.
- Design asynchronous systems that orchestrate complex AI work.
- Use the context-learning library on customer problems and contribute reusable parts back to it.
What they ask for
- You have three or more years of professional experience.
- You have shipped a complex LLM system to production and can explain how it changed after launch.
- You have built agents or other autonomous systems.
- You can explain your work clearly to teammates and to customers.
How it works
- You’d spend every weekday in the London office.
What to know before you apply
Open 15 weeks, longer than most London FDE roles
- Week 11Half of London FDE roles have closed
- Week 15This job so far
In November 2026, Edra had two forward deployed engineer jobs open, one in London and one in New York.
The builder, the most common kind of FDE in London
- 62%The builder (this job). Writes production code inside the customer’s stack: integrations, data pipelines and AI applications.
- 34%The deployment lead. Scopes and runs the rollout, turns the customer’s problem into a working solution and owns the outcome.
Shares of open FDE roles in London.
Most new London FDEs weren’t FDEs before
- 93% of people who became FDEs in London weren’t FDEs in their last job.
- 54% came from a startup or scale-up.
Edra doesn’t list pay for this job
Our London FDE guide shows what FDEs in London expect to earn, so you can talk numbers with confidence.
What London FDEs earnWorth asking the hiring team
- “Which customer operations are live enough that I would ship into them in the first months?”
- “How much of the job is new agent code versus extending the context-learning library?”
Jack’s take on Edra
- Enterprise customers such as ASOS and HubSpot already run on it
- Investors have put in more than $30M
- The team grew from 6 to more than 30 people in a year
- Based in New York and London
- Founded 2024
- 23 open roles
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About this page
Jack & Jill isn’t Edra’s recruiter. We summarized this job from Edra’s public careers page, where you can apply, and we check whether it’s still open each time you open this page. The market numbers come from our London FDE guide and the company facts from Edra’s company page. We last checked this summary against the posting on November 9, 2026. Jack’s take is Jack & Jill’s own.