As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will bridge the gap between product development and enterprise impact. You’ll own the end-to-end rollout of Athena, scoping complex problems, building custom integrations, and ensuring high-stakes AI deployments deliver real value. This high-ownership role places you at the forefront of defining the playbook for autonomous agents.
Forward Deployed Engineer at Humaans
Humaans is redefining workplace infrastructure with Athena, an agentic AI layer, and they’re looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer in London to lead the charge. Backed by $20M from legends like the founders of Slack, Figma, and Shopify, this role puts you at the intersection of enterprise engineering and AI innovation. You won't just follow a backlog; you'll be writing the playbook for how autonomous agents integrate into global organizations. If you're a TypeScript expert who thrives in high-stakes, customer-facing environments and wants to ship production code in minutes, this is your chance to join a small team with an unapologetically high bar.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
Not Disclosed
Company
Humaans
Role overview
Software
Humaans is a next-generation, AI-powered HRIS (Human Resources Information System) designed for high-performing, globally distributed teams. The platform automates the full employment lifecycle—including onboarding, offboarding, promotions, and compensation management—through flexible data models, deep integrations, and fast APIs. Humaans aims to remove manual HR work, reduce compliance risks, and enrich employee experience by acting as a central hub for employee data and streamlining HR-related workflows, enabling companies to scale efficiently while maintaining enterprise-grade security and compliance.
What you will do
- Lead end-to-end enterprise rollouts of the Athena AI platform, partnering with implementation managers to map business use cases to agentic configurations.
- Write production-grade TypeScript code and integrations using AI-assisted development to ship solutions faster than traditional engineering cycles allow.
- Serve as the primary technical authority for customers, translating field insights into product roadmap requirements for the engineering and design leads.
Who this is a fit for
- Possesses several years of full-stack web development experience, specifically within the SaaS domain, with deep expertise in TypeScript and production shipping.
- Has hands-on experience with LLMs or agentic systems, including prompt engineering, tool-calling, and navigating the nuances of model behavior and evaluations.
- Demonstrates exceptional customer-facing skills with the ability to build technical credibility across HR operations and senior executive leadership teams.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a small, high-bar team backed by an incredible roster of investors including Lachy Groom and the founders of Slack, Figma, and Shopify.
- Directly shape the future of agentic AI in the enterprise by writing the playbook for how autonomous agents are deployed in complex organizations.
- Work in a high-stakes environment where you act as a technical founder for each customer, moving from scoping to production in minutes.
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