Senior Software Engineer

Title and Location

Forward Deployed Engineer – AI & Customer-Facing Technical Leader. Remote location with customer visits 4–5 days/month and occasional team gatherings.

The Role

We’re looking for talented engineers to join our customer‑facing AI practice, ranging from Senior Forward Deployed Engineers through to Principal‑level AI technical leaders. You’ll work directly with clients to uncover problems, build prototypes, and guide full AI‑enabled solution lifecycles.

Senior: €130–150k base + growth trajectory.

What You’ll Do

• Lead discovery workshops with technical and business stakeholders.
• Represent the organisation’s technical capabilities in high‑stakes client meetings.
• Build trust and long‑term relationships with engineering teams and decision‑makers.
• Build and iterate working AI prototypes quickly.
• Architect scalable, maintainable systems from prototype to production.
• Make sophisticated technical decisions balancing AI innovation, quality, and deployment needs.

Technical Mentorship & Team Growth

• Guide engineers through technical delivery, code reviews, and architectural discussions.
• Elevate team capabilities through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and internal workshops.
• Contribute to best practices, reusable components, and solution standards.

AI Mastery & Innovation

• Implement AI solutions leveraging LLMs, foundation models, and retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) systems.
• Design evaluation frameworks addressing bias, hallucination detection, and business impact.
• Explore novel AI applications while integrating traditional ML techniques where appropriate.

Who We’re Looking For

• 5–8+ years building robust, scalable software systems.
• Full‑stack development capability across modern technologies.
• Client‑facing experience or technical consulting skills.
• AI curiosity and hands‑on experimentation with tools like ChatGPT, Claude, GitHub Copilot.

Principal Engineer Requirements

• 8+ years delivering complex, enterprise‑grade software.
• Proven AI/ML expertise with production deployment experience.
• Advanced knowledge of transformer architectures, foundation models, and prompt engineering.
• Senior stakeholder engagement experience and ability to lead high‑level AI strategy.