Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer - AI / LLMs - Early stage Start-up
London, with travel to customers weekly as required.
We’re supporting an AI Infrastructure start-up that helps organisations turn their own data into AI models and deploy them in their chosen environment.
As customers move into production, the team is hiring a Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer to own the technical journey from initial discovery through to deployment and ongoing adoption.
This is a hands-on engineering role with significant customer interaction. You’ll work alongside sales and engineering, building tailored demonstrations, validating model performance and helping customers get real workloads into production.
What we’re looking for:
- Strong hands-on experience with open-weight LLM post-training, including fine-tuning techniques such as LoRA and supervised fine-tuning.
- Experience designing evaluations and balancing model quality, latency and inference costs.
- A track record of shipping models into production for real users.
- Strong Python skills, with experience across GPU infrastructure, containers and distributed workloads using tools such as Ray or Kubernetes.
- Confidence leading technical conversations with CTOs and explaining trade-offs to commercial stakeholders.
- A background in forward-deployed, solutions or applied engineering, or a related role combining technical delivery with customer engagement.
- Based in London and able to travel to customers as needed.
Useful additional experience:
- Financial services or other regulated customer environments.
- Data residency and regulatory requirements.
- Working across multiple GPU providers and sizing workloads to hardware.
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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer in London employer: TrueNorth®
TrueNorth® is an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic and innovative work culture, perfect for those looking to make a significant impact in the financial markets intelligence sector. With flexible remote or hybrid working options available in London, employees benefit from a supportive environment that prioritises professional growth and collaboration, alongside opportunities to develop cutting-edge quantitative capabilities. Join us to be part of a forward-thinking team where your expertise in Python and quantitative research will be valued and rewarded.
