Forward Deployed Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p>We fuse together exceptional talent who deliver outstanding software solutions. Our approach has helped us grow 60% in 2021, 94% in 2022, while in 2023 we joined forces with Insight, a Fortune 500 company and a leading solutions and systems integrator. With exciting growth plans and cutting-edge projects, there has never been a better time to join our incredible team. </p></div><p><strong>Role: Forward Deployed Engineer</strong><br><strong>Location: Bristol HQ – Hybrid Model & Travel across EMEA region</strong><br><strong>Salary: DOE</strong></p> <p><br>Insight is looking for an experienced AI Forward Deployed Engineer to lead the design, delivery and scaling of high-impact AI solutions for strategic customers.<br>This is a senior, hands-on technical role for someone who thrives at the intersection of engineering, architecture and customer engagement. You will turn complex and often ambiguous business challenges into secure, scalable and commercially viable AI solutions, taking ownership from early discovery and prototyping through to production deployment. <br>You will act as a senior technical authority across customer engagements, owning solution architecture and critical technical decisions while helping multidisciplinary teams solve difficult engineering problems. This is an individual-contributor technical leadership role, with significant influence but no formal line-management responsibility. </p> <p><br><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></span><br>• Lead the technical design and delivery of complex AI engagements, owning solution architecture, deployment approach, technical risk and engineering priorities.<br>• Work directly with customers and senior stakeholders to translate business challenges into practical AI strategies, roadmaps and solutions.<br>• Design, prototype and deliver AI proofs of concept and production-grade solutions.<br>• Act as a subject-matter expert for forward deployed engineering, unblocking teams and resolving complex technical problems.<br>• Establish technical standards and implementation best practices for generative AI, agentic systems and enterprise AI deployment.<br>• Conduct design and code reviews while mentoring engineers and improving technical capability across the practice.<br>• Collaborate with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, Research, Architecture and Customer Success to align strategy and resolve delivery dependencies.<br>• Create reusable frameworks, accelerators, playbooks and solution patterns that improve the speed and consistency of AI delivery.<br>• Ensure solutions meet appropriate security, legal, ethical, governance and enterprise risk requirements.<br>• Represent the technical perspective in executive briefings, customer workshops and steering meetings.<br>• Explain complex AI and engineering concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.<br>• Contribute customer insight and implementation learnings to the development of Insight’s AI services, offerings and go-to-market approach. </p> <p><br><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Experience Required:</strong></span><br>• Significant experience leading AI, machine learning or applied AI delivery within complex, customer-facing enterprise environments.<br>• Strong programming capability in languages such as Python or JavaScript.<br>• Experience with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.<br>• &