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# Forward Deployed Engineer/Claude Developer

- **Company:** Careerwise
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £120,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Systems Integration, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Agentic-AI, Claude
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/gb/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-FA0DE3EA0AB8E43F1D/

## About the Role

* Extensive experience in developing and shipping production software, including hands-on delivery of LLM and agentic systems (RAG, agent frameworks, vector stores, evaluation and monitoring).
 * Practical experience building with Claude (API, tool use, agentic workflows). A Claude certification will be advantageous.
 * Full-stack development experience.
 * Experience integrating with Legacy and governed systems.
 * Experience leading client discovery meetings, making difficult scoping decisions and communicating confidently with senior stakeholders.
 * Experience using AI-assisted workflows (planning, implementation, review) across Back End, Front End and cloud work.
 * Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Embedded with clients, will be advantageous.

## Description

* Owning technical delivery, from building and integrating to shipping systems into the client's production environment.
 * Working directly with client executives and engineers to understand their needs and turn them into technical solutions.
 * Making key architecture decisions, including patterns, integrations and trade-offs for Claude models and agents, and explaining these choices to client engineers.
 * Extending and integrating with Legacy and governed insurance and financial platforms.
 * Developing across the full stack of technologies.
 * Leading a small team of engineers and reviewing their work.
 * Delivering production-ready systems with evals, guardrails, monitoring and documentation.