Forward Deployed Engineer
You’d work as a software engineer with ElevenLabs customers. You’d build their integrations and travel to their sites.
- Regular customer travel, London preferred, UK office available
- Full time
- 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. You’d sit with the customer’s engineers and executives and own the project end to end.”
Who it suits
A good fit if you
- You like owning a customer’s project from the idea to the integration.
- You want to write code with the customer’s own engineers.
- You’re glad to talk through the architecture with executives.
Think twice if you
- You want a job with no customer contact.
- You want to stay off the road.
- You aren’t comfortable writing Python.
What you’d do
- You’d own the customer’s project and write the code yourself.
- You’d work daily with the customer’s engineers and executives.
- You’d write the Python for the integration problems those projects hit.
What they ask for
- You’ve worked with customers. A student club or a side project counts, if you want to do that work on technical problems.
- You’re proficient in Python and understand software development, architecture, and API integration.
- You can explain a complex technical idea clearly and reason your way to a sound solution.
How it works
- You’d travel regularly to customer sites.
What to know before you apply
Open 5 weeks
- Week 5This job so far
- Week 11Half of London FDE roles have closed
In November 2026, ElevenLabs had 4 forward deployed engineer jobs open, in Argentina, London, Mexico, and San Francisco.
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.
ElevenLabs 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
- “How much of the customer-site travel is outside the UK?”
- “A student club or a side project can count as customer experience. What kind of example are you hoping to see?”
Jack’s take on ElevenLabs
- Revenue reached $600M a year within four years
- Valuation rose from $3.3B to $22B in 20 months
- The team grew from 330 to 800 people in a year
- Based in London and New York
- Founded 2022
- 136 open roles
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About this page
Jack & Jill isn’t ElevenLabs’ recruiter. We summarized this job from ElevenLabs’ 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 ElevenLabs’ company page. We last checked this summary against the posting on November 9, 2026. Jack’s take is Jack & Jill’s own.