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# Foward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** Leonardo UK
- **Location:** Edinburgh, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Bash Shell, Computer Programming, Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Simulink, Value Engineering, Large Language Models, Agentic-AI, AI Platforms
- **Published:** October 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/engineer/leonardo-uk-ltd-job108099397

## About the Role

* High agency. You are curious, purposeful and proactive - you learn quickly and find ways to navigate complex organisational structures.
 * Outcome oriented and data driven - you care about effecting real change for our engineers and our end customers.
 * Write well enough that anything you leave behind is usable by a stranger six months later.
 * Comfortable being measured on whether other people adopted something.
 * Able to enter an unfamiliar programme, earn trust with a variety of stakeholders quickly, and leave without having become indispensable.

What you'll bring

 * Familiarity with LLMs, SLMs and Agentic AI as a user
 * Programming and scripting, such as MATLAB, Simulink, Python, Bash
 * Product and systems thinking, You must be eligible for full security clearance. For more information and guidance please visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vettingclearance-levels

## Description

Leonardo UK Engineering is building internal AI Engineering Capability with engineers who deploy into Integrated Project Teams for short, scoped engagements. The role uses AI-enabled tooling to improve how a programme handles requirements, architecture, modelling, design, implementation and related engineering work. You will work within a small multi-disciplinary team in deep collaboration with our AI platform development team.

What you'll do

 * Deploy into a project - help to discover, scope and solve high value engineering problems with the platform's tooling.
 * Collaborate with the AI platform team to make architecture and design decisions and with company process owners to change how we engineer
 * Build custom applications, workflows and templates to enable development, improvement of engineering products - from specifications to product implementation to supporting engineering modelling & simulation tooling.
 * Become an expert user: know the tooling's opportunities and failure modes better than anyone else in the company.
 * Skill up the IPT's engineers as you go - the team should be more capable after you leave than it was while you were there., * You work across several programmes a year instead of one, and see how the business really engineers.
 * You become the company's expert user of tooling that will be everywhere in three years.
 * The process change your project exposes becomes the new company standard - you change the method, not just the output.
 * Your output is measured in other people's capability, which is a rarer and more portable thing to have done.