Forward Deployed Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineer

Scope automates the regulation that's slowing down the physical world. Standards are vital for the safety of our infrastructure. Spending hours manually documenting them is not.

Dave is an inspector. Today he’s climbing through one of Europe’s biggest ammonia plants, looking for the corrosion that could shut the whole site down, with a notebook and pen in hand. Tomorrow, he’ll spend even longer on the part of the job he hates: turning those scribbles into a report.

We’re reinventing this process for the AI era. Scope radically simplifies how inspectors collect data in the field, make decisions, and produce reports. Along the way, we’re building the world’s largest dataset on the condition of the built world and the decisions experts make about it.

It’s a $100B+ market and we’re only just getting started. We have grown revenue 5x in the last year and on track to reach 10MM ARR in 2026. 6 of the top 10 companies in the space are clients or piloting with us. Our customers inspect facilities and products for companies including AstraZeneca and SpaceX.

We’ve assembled a best in class team: former and future founders, people from institutions like Imperial, Carnegie Mellon and Oxford, and from firms like Goldman Sachs, McKinsey and Amazon. Since launching from Entrepreneurs First in 2024, we’ve raised $4m in seed funding from Susa Ventures across two rounds and closing our Series A in April from a Tier 1 fund.

About the role

You’ll own problems end to end. You won’t be handed tickets and asked to stay in your lane. You’ll talk to users, decide what matters, design the solution, ship it, and see whether it worked.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will work directly with our customers and their environments. Around 25 percent of your time will be spent on client sites from chemical plants in Europe to facilities in the US and Singapore. We work in person five days a week from our sunny office in Farringdon. When you’re not onsite with a client, you’ll be working closely with the team there. We believe being together helps us move faster, solve problems more effectively, and it is also more fun. We’re looking for people who want to help invent what inspection software should look like in a post AI world.

What you’ll do

• Spend time with inspectors in factories and chemical plants. Understand how they work and redesign workflows with them


• Work directly with clients to unblock issues, implement solutions, and ensure successful rollouts


• Build and iterate on client facing solutions including data migrations, workflow automation, and AI powered reporting


• Own onboarding of new clients end to end and ensure they go live quickly and successfully


• Debug and resolve issues in production in high stakes environments


• Feed insights from the field back into the core product and shape what we build next


• Partner with engineering and product to turn one off solutions into scalable features

Who you are

We believe great teams are made up of highly agentic managers of one. People who care more about shipping results than collecting badges. You should apply if you are deeply technical, enjoy working directly with users, and want to own problems end to end in the real world.

You might be a good fit if:

• You have 3 to 8 years of experience in engineering or a highly technical role


• You are comfortable working with both technical and non technical stakeholders


• You are proactive, take ownership, and move quickly


• You enjoy being close to real world problems rather than abstracted away from them


• You are excited by travel and working on site with clients globally

Interview process

• An initial call


• A collaborative technical exercise with an engineer


• An interview with a cofounder, Jonny or Jakob


• Onsite product interview, meeting more people on the team and getting a feel of what it would be like to work here


• Offer

Compensation and benefits

£80,000 - £120,000 + equity. Visa sponsorship available. We welcome top talent globally and will support the visa process. Travel opportunities to client sites globally including the US and Singapore. Dinners and team lunch on Fridays paid for by Scope.

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