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# Forward Deployed Operator - Software Engineering

- **Company:** Onodrim Industries
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** £45,807
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Python (Programming Language), OPC Unified Architecture, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, TypeScript, Enterprise Data Management, Large Language Models, Information Technology
- **Published:** November 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5958941873

## About the Role

* A degree in computer science, software engineering or a closely related technical discipline - or an equivalent track record of shipped software.
 * At least 2-4 years' experience as a software engineer, with at least some of it spent deploying software to real users: forward deployed, solutions or implementation engineering, or product engineering with direct customer contact.
 * A builder at heart: you'd rather ship something imperfect this week and improve it than design the perfect system for next quarter.
 * Strong general-purpose engineering skills - you're fluent in at least one of Python, TypeScript or Java, write SQL without thinking about it, and can pick up a new language, API or platform in days.
 * Comfort with data: ingesting messy exports from ERP, MES and quality systems, modelling them and producing something people trust.
 * Good judgement on build vs. buy vs. configure - and the willingness to use an existing tool when it does the job.
 * Credibility with non-engineers: you can sit with a shift supervisor or a controller, understand their world, and explain what you're building in their terms.
 * Clear, direct communication in English, written and spoken.
 * Willingness to travel extensively and spend extended periods at portfolio companies across Europe.
 * Right to work in the UK, Switzerland or the EU.

 * We operate our business in English but fluency in one or more additional European languages is hugely helpful - German or Italian especially valuable.
 * Experience in or around manufacturing, defence, logistics or another industrial environment where the software meets physical operations.
 * Prior forward deployed, solutions or consulting-style engineering where you owned the outcome at the client, not just the code.
 * Familiarity with industrial data and protocols: OPC UA, PLC exports, machine logs, time-series data.
 * Experience building LLM-backed tools on top of enterprise data, and a view on where they help and where they don't.
 * An entrepreneurial streak: a start-up you ran, a product you shipped on the side, or a stint in a small team where you did whatever the problem needed.

## Description

* Make it stick. Train users, write the runbooks, handle the first weeks of support and leave the site able to run what you built without you.
 * Work with our Forward Deployed Operators. Turn their floor-level diagnosis into software; feed what the data shows back into their loss analysis.
 * Ship for Onodrim itself. Build and run the internal tooling the platform needs - across finance, operations, security and portfolio reporting - with the same standards as sub-co work.
 * Feed the product. Bring field patterns back to Onodrim's core engineering team so what works at one site becomes standard at the next.
 * Own outcomes. Agree on measurable targets with the site, track them and stay accountable: adoption, data coverage, hours saved, throughput unlocked.