Forward Deployed Engineer – DV

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer | Active DV | London | £800 p/d Outside IR35

I’m looking for a senior, hands-on engineer with real defence delivery experience to build AI capability from scratch and see it all the way through to the customer.

What you’ll be doing

Taking new products from a blank page to live, and owning them the whole way
Getting a cloud-native product running wherever the customer needs it: on-prem, OpenShift, Kubernetes, VMs or bare metal
Delivering AI and LLM capability, including GPU workloads and models served on-prem
Shipping into secure and air-gapped networks through controlled release processes
Leading the security side: threat modelling, building the evidence and getting systems accredited
Writing the docs and test plans, and being the go-to technical person for senior stakeholders

Tech you’ll use
TypeScript, Node.js, Fastify, Next.js and React, with Prisma and PostgreSQL, on GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Tasks), plus solid security and IAM experience.

You’ll need

Active DV clearance
A track record of delivering into defence
Principal-level experience while still writing code
To be London-based or able to get on site

Bonus points for
Accreditation, OpenShift or GPU model serving.

If that sounds like you, apply with your CV