Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
STRATOS Technologies
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
STRATOS Technologies
AI-driven B2B growth and strategy platform
About us
STRATOS builds the commercial digital twin that large industrial companies run on. We work with global B2B companies to synchronize strategy and execution and ensure commercial success is driven by potential, not gut feel or old data. STRATOS is a category-defining, rapidly growing startup, profitable and majority founder-owned with our Series A still ahead of us, funded by high-profile investors (e.g., Accel) and trusted by 15 global industrial leaders and Fortune 500 customers. Our software integrates complex datasets into a unified solution, combining deep data integration, best-in-class workflows, and cutting-edge generative AI.
The role
Lead the deployments that decide how some of the world's biggest industrial companies grow. As a Senior FDE, you own the technical side of a client relationship, set the architecture, ship to production and grow the engineers around you, with founders who stay close to the work.
What you'll do
Lead deployments end to end for one or more clients, from scoping with their leadership to running production systems
Own the architecture for data pipelines, ontologies and AI workflows on Palantir Foundry and AIP
Be the technical lead in the room at client senior level: you're the engineer they trust to tell them what's possible and what to build first
Grow the FDEs around you through code review, pairing and setting the bar for quality and speed
Shape the roadmap with Product and our founders, turning patterns you see across clients into reusable product
You might be a fit if you
Have 4+ years in data engineering, software engineering or forward-deployed roles, with production systems you're proud of
Write expert Python, PySpark and SQL, and design data models that hold up at scale
Have led client-facing technical work and can explain trade-offs to executives
Make good decisions quickly with imperfect information, and back them
Want a big say in how a profitable, fast-growing company builds its engineering team
Nice to have
Palantir Foundry or AIP in production
TypeScript, API development or front-end work
ERP (SAP, Oracle) or CRM data at enterprise scale
Experience in specialty chemicals, building materials or other industrial sectors
Why engineers join us
Big clients, small team. Some of the biggest names in industry, served by a team of 40. Your work reaches their leadership in weeks, not years.
Own the stack. We fully control our stack and choose our tools. No committees, no tickets passed between five teams, no egos.
Built to last. Profitable, founder-led and majority founder-owned, backed by high-profile investors (e.g., Accel), with our Series A still ahead of us. That means growth on our terms and real upside for early joiners.
Learn from people who've done it. Founders who have run a $1B business, plus people from Palantir, McKinsey and BCG, all in the same room.
In person, on purpose. Three days a week together in Farringdon. Fast feedback, fast decisions and fast shipping.
What we offer
Equity through our stock option programme, so you share in the long-term success and growth of the company
A highly competitive salary
Direct access to Fortune 500 executives from your first months, at a level most people wait a decade for
Work alongside former MBB consultants and Fortune 500 executives who will teach you directly — our team is small enough that this happens in person, not through a training curriculum
Private healthcare
Pension scheme
25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays
Work from abroad — up to four weeks a year, and up to two weeks at a time
Hybrid office policy, with visa sponsorship available
A company committed to social and environmental responsibility — we pledge to be a net-zero CO₂ company and donate 1% of our revenue to social causes
How we hire
Intro call with our recruiter
Technical task, reviewed by our engineers within a day or two
Call with Solomon, our VP Engineering
Two hours in person with Marco (CTO) and Solomon
30-minute final conversation with Nico, our CEO
Practicalities
London-based, 3 days a week in our Farringdon office
AI-driven B2B growth and strategy platform
STRATOS Technologies offers an AI-powered B2B SaaS platform, the STRATOS Commercial Digital Twin, which acts as a Strategy Operating System by building a digital replica of a client’s business and market through integrating external data (like market signals) with internal CRM and ERP data. The system uses AI to score and micro-target the most attractive growth opportunities across markets, products, and customers, and provides workflows for go-to-market strategy, sales optimization, financial planning, and automated marketing. It differentiates itself by delivering an end-to-end data-integrated platform designed for large, complex portfolios—serving Fortune 500 companies and private equity clients in fragmented markets such as construction, specialty chemicals, and life sciences. The goal is to enable sustainable growth by synchronizing strategy and execution across dispersed portfolios through a unified commercial operating system.
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