{"id":65113,"date":"2026-04-30T14:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elixirr.com\/en-gb\/job-openings\/forward-deployed-engineer\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T14:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:00:58","slug":"forward-deployed-engineer","status":"publish","type":"vacancies","link":"https:\/\/www.elixirr.com\/en-gb\/job-openings\/forward-deployed-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Forward Deployed Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About Elixirr<\/strong> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Elixirr International plc is a global consulting firm with a bold ambition: to become the best consulting firm in the world. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2009 to challenge a declining industry standard, we\u2019ve grown from a single vision into a powerhouse of entrepreneurial talent, delivering boardroom strategy through to execution. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After IPO-ing on AIM in July 2020, Elixirr moved to the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in July 2025. In that time, our market cap has grown from \u00a398 million to over \u00a3350 million \u2013 a testament to our differentiated approach and relentless pursuit of excellence. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With a presence across the UK, US, EU, and South Africa, and a client base spanning industries and geographies, we\u2019ve welcomed seven boutique firms into the Group. This has broadened our capabilities across creative, digital marketing, data and AI, procurement, transformation, and more. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our vision of becoming a services unicorn is firmly within reach \u2013 and this is just the beginning. We\u2019re looking for exceptional talent to join us on this exciting growth journey and shape the future of consulting.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You will be based in London. Our headquarters are in Central London. It\u2019s where it all began for us and continues to be a hub of innovation and growth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) are the people we put in the room when a problem is ambiguous, the data is messy, and a working solution needs to exist in weeks, not quarters. As an FDE at Elixirr, you will embed with our delivery teams and internal functions to go from idea to working prototype, and to build the internal tools and agents that accelerate how Elixirr itself delivers.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve deliberately modelled this role on how the category is defined in the market \u2014 pioneered at Palantir and scaled by firms like OpenAI. An FDE is a hybrid of technical lead, consultant and product manager: someone who writes production-quality code, but is just as comfortable sitting with users, understanding how decisions actually get made, and stress-testing a prototype in the field. Business acumen is not a bonus here \u2014 it is core to the job.<\/p>\n<p>An important scope point: this role is focused on idea-to-prototype and on building internal solutions that make Elixirr faster and better. A separate, dedicated team owns productionization into enterprise-grade software. 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