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About the team OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with global pharma and biotech, CROs, and research institutions to deploy existing expertise across the R&D value chain to help customers design and ship production grade AI systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development, converting early deployments into repeatable system standards and evaluation practices that scale across regulated environments. About the role We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to push the frontier on what is possible today across drug discovery (e.g., target identification, molecular design, pre clinical) and development (e.g., trial design, trial ops, biostats) by leading end to end deployments of our models inside life sciences organizations and research institutions. You will work with customers who are deep experts in their scientific or operational domains, translating real world data, infrastructure, and constraints into production systems. You will measure success through production adoption, measurable workflow impact, and eval driven feedback loops, including evaluation benchmarks and acceptance criteria, that inform product and model roadmaps. You'll work closely with our Product, Research, Partnerships, GRC, Security, and GTM to deliver in regulated contexts, including inspection readiness with audit trails and traceable evidence. This role is based in London. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% is required. In this role you will Design and ship production systems around models, owning integrations, data provenance, reliability, and on call readiness across research, clinical, and operational workflows. Lead discovery and scoping from pre sales through post sales, translating ambiguous workflow needs into hypothesis driven problem framing, system requirements, and an execution plan with measurable endpoints. Define and enforce launch criteria for regulated contexts, including validation evidence, audit readiness, outcome metrics, and drive delivery until we demonstrate sustained production impact. Build in sensitive scientific data environments where auditability, validation, and access controls shape architecture, operating procedures, and failure handling. Run evaluation loops that measure model system quality against workflow specific scientific benchmarks and use results to drive model and product changes. Distill deployment learnings into hardened primitives, reference architectures, validation templates, and benchmark harnesses that scale across regulated life sciences environments. You might thrive in this role if you Bring 5+ years of software/ML engineering or technical deployment experience with customer facing ownership in biotech, pharma, clinical research, or scientific software; PhD, MS, or equivalent applied experience in a life sciences relevant field encouraged. Have owned customer GenAI deployments end to end from scoping through production adoption, and improved them through evaluation design, error analysis, and iterative evidence generation that tightens acceptance criteria over time. Have delivered AI systems in trial design, regulatory writing, or scientific operations where validation strategy, auditability, compliance constraints, and reviewer expectations shaped system design and rollout. Communicate clearly across scientific, clinical, model research, technical, and executive audiences, translating technical tradeoffs into decision quality, risk posture, and measurable outcomes with credibility. Apply systems thinking with high execution standards, consistently turning failures, escalations, and audit findings into improved operating standards, validation artifacts, and repeatable deployment playbooks.
About the team OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with global pharma and biotech, CROs, and research institutions to deploy existing expertise across the R&D value chain to help customers design and ship production grade AI systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development, converting early deployments into repeatable system standards and evaluation practices that scale across regulated environments. About the role We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to push the frontier on what is possible today across drug discovery (e.g., target identification, molecular design, pre clinical) and development (e.g., trial design, trial ops, biostats) by leading end to end deployments of our models inside life sciences organizations and research institutions. You will work with customers who are deep experts in their scientific or operational domains, translating real world data, infrastructure, and constraints into production systems. You will measure success through production adoption, measurable workflow impact, and eval driven feedback loops, including evaluation benchmarks and acceptance criteria, that inform product and model roadmaps. You'll work closely with our Product, Research, Partnerships, GRC, Security, and GTM to deliver in regulated contexts, including inspection readiness with audit trails and traceable evidence. This role is based in London. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. We offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% is required. In this role you will Design and ship production systems around models, owning integrations, data provenance, reliability, and on call readiness across research, clinical, and operational workflows. Lead discovery and scoping from pre sales through post sales, translating ambiguous workflow needs into hypothesis driven problem framing, system requirements, and an execution plan with measurable endpoints. Define and enforce launch criteria for regulated contexts, including validation evidence, audit readiness, outcome metrics, and drive delivery until we demonstrate sustained production impact. Build in sensitive scientific data environments where auditability, validation, and access controls shape architecture, operating procedures, and failure handling. Run evaluation loops that measure model system quality against workflow specific scientific benchmarks and use results to drive model and product changes. Distill deployment learnings into hardened primitives, reference architectures, validation templates, and benchmark harnesses that scale across regulated life sciences environments. You might thrive in this role if you Bring 5+ years of software/ML engineering or technical deployment experience with customer facing ownership in biotech, pharma, clinical research, or scientific software; PhD, MS, or equivalent applied experience in a life sciences relevant field encouraged. Have owned customer GenAI deployments end to end from scoping through production adoption, and improved them through evaluation design, error analysis, and iterative evidence generation that tightens acceptance criteria over time. Have delivered AI systems in trial design, regulatory writing, or scientific operations where validation strategy, auditability, compliance constraints, and reviewer expectations shaped system design and rollout. Communicate clearly across scientific, clinical, model research, technical, and executive audiences, translating technical tradeoffs into decision quality, risk posture, and measurable outcomes with credibility. Apply systems thinking with high execution standards, consistently turning failures, escalations, and audit findings into improved operating standards, validation artifacts, and repeatable deployment playbooks.
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Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years. ABOUT THE JOB We are seeking a hardcore Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) Engineer to own the execution and reality check of our true System of Systems (SoS) architecture. If our "Left Side" Systems Engineers are the architects, you are the Chief Engineer of Reality. You own the entire Systems V for a given problem set, but your anchor is firmly planted on the "Right Side." You are not a compliance checker, a QA tester, or someone who lives entirely in spreadsheets or JAMA. You are the forcing function that brings disjointed software, hardware, and autonomy subsystems together into a singular, field ready, system of systems capability. Your mission is to build a "steel thread" for any given capability, the fastest path to getting a baseline, end to end system working in the real world, ensure it is validated for the customer's use case, and then relentlessly iterate to make it robust. You will partner tightly with TPMs, Software Engineers (SWEs), and "Left Side" SEs to take paper architectures and smash them into rigorous mathematical and physical reality. When the software team blames the hardware team, you are the one who steps into the SITL/HITL lab or the field, parses the logs, puts a scope on the wire, diagnoses the root cause, and drives the solution. If you thrive in high velocity, hardware rich environments where the ultimate metric is "execution," this is the job for you. WHAT YOU'LL DO Lead the hands on integration of complex, heterogenous hardware (legacy platforms, 3rd party sensors, and internal products) and software. Prove the baseline end to end data flow first, then scale the complexity. You are the ultimate technical authority for Verification, Validation (V&V), and fielding. You will translate Systems Readiness Reviews (SRRs) into Systems Requirements Documents (SRDs) and SRDs into aggressive, real world campaigns. Take Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and prove them on the bench and in the water. When a third-party "black box" doesn't play nice with our network, you are the primary investigator debugging the physical, electrical, and data boundaries. Act as the lead anomaly hunter. Conduct multidisciplinary triage across mechanical, electrical, software, and network domains during integration and field testing. Partner directly with TPMs (who own schedule) to balance technical risk and resource allocation. Feed ruthless, data driven feedback loops back to the SWEs and Left Side SEs to drive immediate product improvements. Own the execution of critical downstream milestones. You will write the test plans, build the Hardware in the Loop (HITL) rigs, and lead the execution for readiness reviews and acceptance tests. Travel to the field and customer sites to lead complex operational deployments, ensuring the system transitions smoothly from R&D to operational dominance and customer success. Ability to travel as required for program support, proposal support, and stakeholder meetings. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS 8+ years of rigorous Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test experience, with a heavy emphasis on the Right Side of the V (subsystem integration, HITL/SITL testing, V&V, and field execution). A proven track record of taking complex, multi domain systems from the lab bench to operational environments at a breakneck pace. You must know how to make disparate systems talk. "Hands on" DNA. You are as comfortable reading a Python script or parsing a JSON payload as you are debugging a serial connection or analyzing network traffic (Wireshark, TCP/IP, UDP). Demonstrated experience acting as the technical "glue" between highly specialized software, electrical, and mechanical engineering teams. Experience running formal customer sell off milestones (FAT, SAT) and fielding products in unforgiving environments. Ability to travel 20% with potential surges above 20% Must be authorized to work in the United Kingdom PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Experience operating, integrating, and troubleshooting complex systems in a maritime or subsea environment (acoustic sensors, underwater navigation, comms relays), but Maritime domain experience is not required. Proficiency in scripting and data analysis tools (Python, bash, MATLAB) to rapidly parse logs, automate test rigs, and visualize system performance in the field. Familiarity with Linux operating systems, RTOSes, and edge compute architectures. Familiarity with building and utilizing Hardware in the Loop (HITL) and Software in the Loop (SITL) test infrastructures. Experience with subsea operational procedures, launch and recovery systems (LARS), and offshore test execution. Benefits At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top tier benefits for full time employees, including:
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years. ABOUT THE JOB We are seeking a hardcore Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) Engineer to own the execution and reality check of our true System of Systems (SoS) architecture. If our "Left Side" Systems Engineers are the architects, you are the Chief Engineer of Reality. You own the entire Systems V for a given problem set, but your anchor is firmly planted on the "Right Side." You are not a compliance checker, a QA tester, or someone who lives entirely in spreadsheets or JAMA. You are the forcing function that brings disjointed software, hardware, and autonomy subsystems together into a singular, field ready, system of systems capability. Your mission is to build a "steel thread" for any given capability, the fastest path to getting a baseline, end to end system working in the real world, ensure it is validated for the customer's use case, and then relentlessly iterate to make it robust. You will partner tightly with TPMs, Software Engineers (SWEs), and "Left Side" SEs to take paper architectures and smash them into rigorous mathematical and physical reality. When the software team blames the hardware team, you are the one who steps into the SITL/HITL lab or the field, parses the logs, puts a scope on the wire, diagnoses the root cause, and drives the solution. If you thrive in high velocity, hardware rich environments where the ultimate metric is "execution," this is the job for you. WHAT YOU'LL DO Lead the hands on integration of complex, heterogenous hardware (legacy platforms, 3rd party sensors, and internal products) and software. Prove the baseline end to end data flow first, then scale the complexity. You are the ultimate technical authority for Verification, Validation (V&V), and fielding. You will translate Systems Readiness Reviews (SRRs) into Systems Requirements Documents (SRDs) and SRDs into aggressive, real world campaigns. Take Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and prove them on the bench and in the water. When a third-party "black box" doesn't play nice with our network, you are the primary investigator debugging the physical, electrical, and data boundaries. Act as the lead anomaly hunter. Conduct multidisciplinary triage across mechanical, electrical, software, and network domains during integration and field testing. Partner directly with TPMs (who own schedule) to balance technical risk and resource allocation. Feed ruthless, data driven feedback loops back to the SWEs and Left Side SEs to drive immediate product improvements. Own the execution of critical downstream milestones. You will write the test plans, build the Hardware in the Loop (HITL) rigs, and lead the execution for readiness reviews and acceptance tests. Travel to the field and customer sites to lead complex operational deployments, ensuring the system transitions smoothly from R&D to operational dominance and customer success. Ability to travel as required for program support, proposal support, and stakeholder meetings. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS 8+ years of rigorous Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test experience, with a heavy emphasis on the Right Side of the V (subsystem integration, HITL/SITL testing, V&V, and field execution). A proven track record of taking complex, multi domain systems from the lab bench to operational environments at a breakneck pace. You must know how to make disparate systems talk. "Hands on" DNA. You are as comfortable reading a Python script or parsing a JSON payload as you are debugging a serial connection or analyzing network traffic (Wireshark, TCP/IP, UDP). Demonstrated experience acting as the technical "glue" between highly specialized software, electrical, and mechanical engineering teams. Experience running formal customer sell off milestones (FAT, SAT) and fielding products in unforgiving environments. Ability to travel 20% with potential surges above 20% Must be authorized to work in the United Kingdom PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Experience operating, integrating, and troubleshooting complex systems in a maritime or subsea environment (acoustic sensors, underwater navigation, comms relays), but Maritime domain experience is not required. Proficiency in scripting and data analysis tools (Python, bash, MATLAB) to rapidly parse logs, automate test rigs, and visualize system performance in the field. Familiarity with Linux operating systems, RTOSes, and edge compute architectures. Familiarity with building and utilizing Hardware in the Loop (HITL) and Software in the Loop (SITL) test infrastructures. Experience with subsea operational procedures, launch and recovery systems (LARS), and offshore test execution. Benefits At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top tier benefits for full time employees, including: