Sales Forward Deployed Engineer - AI London £105K - £125K

V7 turns human knowledge into trustworthy AI, powering products that solve our hardest problems. Our platform lets customers build no-code AI workflows that solve knowledge work with V7 Go, and leverage expert humans to improve frontier AI model knowledge with V7 Darwin. V7 was recently ranked No 1 in Sifted’s top B2B companies for 2024 and raised a $33m Series A including the AI Fund @ Radical Ventures. We are backed by some of the best minds in AI, from Ashish Vaswani (Invented Transformers, the basis of GPT), Oriol Vinyals (Google Deepmind and Gemini co-lead), Christian Szegedy (X.ai) and AI leadership at Amazon, X, Isomorphic, and Google. V7 is used to power AI’s rollout at Fortune 500 organisations including Sony, Boston Scientific and Genentech.

Software Engineers at V7 ensure that complex operations involving AI – think applying foundation models like Gemini Pro to enable complex analyses across large financial documents - are performed reliably and efficiently at scale. The Backend Engineer role holds significant influence, shaping the trajectory of the company's future in close collaboration with the Founders.

About the role: As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will collaborate with sales teams to ensure key V7 customers achieve twice the impact in half the time. You will thrive on understanding technical leaders' challenges and requirements and delivering complex solutions and POVs. You are a prototyper at heart with a gift of talking to customers, building relationships, and solving technical problems with repeatability. You will join a high performing team of two, supporting the wider sales team on key deals and customer proof-of-values. V7 is a self-serve product; however, complex problems sometimes require complex solutions that customers don’t always see - that’s where you come in.

What you will be doing:

• Solutions development and presentation: You will develop and present workflow implementations within V7 that combine prompt engineering, data ingestion pipelines, and format conversions, solving customer problems in image recognition, document processing, product development and more. You will present your findings to customers alongside sales.
• Technical integrations: You will work with our product team to assist with the integration of new models and ML-Ops tools into V7.
• Marketplace Integration: Develop and maintain the integration into major cloud marketplaces so users can more easily set up V7 on their cloud of choice.
• Time management: Multi-task between up to 5 simultaneous projects delivered in short timeframes. You are a skilled multi-tasker and familiar with project management tools like Linear.

Who you are:

• Experience delivering Large Language Model projects with customers, including LLM API integration, up-to-speed knowledge of foundation models, SFT (Supervised Fine-Tuning), prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval-augmented generation) and/or measuring AI accuracy.
• Two years + experience in solutions architecture or integrating multiple applications/data streams, or ML development within customer-facing roles.
• Intermediate experience with Python.
• University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields.
• Solutioning: ability to develop and articulate an AI solution vision to technical and business stakeholders with customers and partners to match value proposition to business needs.
• Thrived as another fast-paced SaaS startup or scale-up during a high-growth phase.
• Preferred to have: expertise with langchain and similar tools for multimodal AI projects.

What’s in it for you:

• £80-100k base salary with £25k additional commission.
• Top 15% quartile equity options plan through an EMI scheme.
• Private Healthcare via Vitality for our UK employees, or equivalent allowance outside of UK.
• Pension contribution through Nest.
• £800 Learning and Development budget.
• Apple MacBook suitable for your role.
• Monthly wellbeing and mental health budget via ThanksBen.
• Personalised benefits platform via Thanks Ben.
• Enhanced Parental Leave.
• 30 days holiday, plus an additional day for every year of service with V7, plus Bank Holidays on top.
• 4-day company-wide and 4 day departmental retreats in stunning locations.
• Hybrid working with flexibility, role dependent.
• Temporary work from anywhere for one month in the calendar year.
• Paid tickets, accommodation, and travel to relevant conferences, nationally or internationally (NeurIPS, ICCV, CVPR, ...) to expand your network & knowledge during normal times.

What’s the interview process:

• 1st recruiter screen with Sr Talent Acquisition Manager.
• 2nd Peer interview.
• 3rd Hiring Manager interview.
• 4th Product and technical test.