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# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** Humaans Today
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Applicant Tracking Systems, Business Systems, Software as a Service, Software Debugging, Human Resources Information System (HRIS), TypeScript, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Integration Tests, Api Management
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/forward-deployed-engineer-athena-humaans-8408894

## About the Role

If you have massive ambition and want to work on a hard problem, with a small team that moves fast, at a moment when the category is genuinely up for grabs - this is it., * Multiple years of industry experience building production software, ideally within SaaS

 * Strong TypeScript knowledge and confidence building and debugging API integrations
 * Hands-on experience with LLM applications: prompting, tool calling, retrieval and evaluating model behaviour
 * Experience with authentication, authorisation and handling sensitive data across connected systems
 * Comfort working directly with customers, explaining technical trade-offs clearly to both engineers and operational teams
 * The ability to take an ambiguous business process and turn it into a working, deployed solution
 * A proven track record of shipping work that made a real difference to customers
 * A high degree of ownership: you follow problems through to the root cause, surface blockers early and keep commitments you make to customers
 * Comfort juggling several customers and switching between building, debugging and customer conversations as priorities shift

Helpful experience

 * HRIS, ATS, payroll, identity or other enterprise business systems
 * People operations processes such as onboarding, offboarding, time away and employee requests
 * Agent orchestration, MCP or workflow automation
 * Production monitoring, integration testing and AI evaluations

## Description

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll work alongside a Delivery Lead on a portfolio of Athena customers, staying with them from first deployment through ongoing expansion., * Build the product around the customer. Work directly in the Athena codebase, building the tools, integrations and features each customer needs, and ship to production every day.

 * Turn requirements into live agents. Pick up requirements from the Delivery Lead, agree priorities together, then configure agents and jobs, connect integrations and add any missing data.
 * Ship with confidence. Write evals, QA every release and demo it to the customer alongside the Delivery Lead.
 * Own it in production. Monitor how your agents perform, debug what breaks and fix the root cause. When customers ask technical questions in their channel, you answer.
 * Be the tech lead in the room. Lead the technical and product side of customer calls: scope what's possible, explain how it works and commit to what you'll build.
 * Shape what's next. Use what you see in production to find each customer's next use case.