IT & Software

Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE)

NTT DATA

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

As a Forward-Deployed Engineer in our AI GTM group, you will rapidly build demos, prototypes, and MVPs that translate AI opportunities into tangible client solutions. You’ll work alongside account teams to demonstrate value, and partner with solution architects and ecosystem partners to ensure feasible, secure implementations. Your work accelerates opportunity conversion by delivering credible, client-specific AI concepts. This role blends hands-on engineering, AI fluency, and cross-functional collaboration to showcase differentiated capabilities.

Pay / Benefits
  • flexible work options
  • learning and development opportunities
  • tailored benefits for wellbeing
  • equal opportunities and inclusive environment
Responsibilities
  • Rapidly create demos, prototypes, PoCs, and MVPs for AI use cases for clients and account teams
  • Translate client problems into working AI concepts using models, data, workflows, APIs, integrations, and UX patterns
  • Support discovery workshops, executive demos, technical deep dives, and partner enablement
  • Collaborate with Solution Architects to align prototypes with scalable architecture, security, and operational requirements
  • Engage with ecosystem partners to showcase capabilities across OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Google/Gemini, cloud, data, and enterprise platforms
  • Package prototypes into reusable assets, demo scripts, technical collateral, setup guides, and reference architectures
  • Validate feasibility, data dependencies, integration complexity, UX assumptions, and risks early in the sales cycle
  • Help accelerate deals by making AI solutions concrete, credible, and client-specific
  • Contribute lessons learned, reusable code, prompts, and agent patterns to the global knowledge base
Key requirements
  • 5+ years in software/AI engineering or related technical roles
  • 2+ years building or deploying AI/ML/GenAI/RAG/agentic AI solutions
  • Hands-on experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, FastAPI, Flask, React, LangChain, LlamaIndex, PyTorch, TensorFlow or similar
  • Experience integrating APIs, data sources, model providers, workflow tools, and cloud services into demos/prototypes
  • Working knowledge of responsible AI, security, data handling, privacy, and enterprise deployment
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
  • Strong technical curiosity
  • Client empathy
  • Clear communication and ability to explain complex concepts
  • Python
  • JavaScript/TypeScript
  • FastAPI

Reference: WJ-747_30143960

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