Elixirr Consulting

Forward Deployed Engineer

Dallas · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 4 days ago

TypeScriptPythonNode.jsFull-Stack DevelopmentAWSGCPAzureLLMsRAGLangGraphProcurementPLCResearch

About the role

Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) are the people we put in the room when a problem is ambiguous, the data is messy, and a working solution needs to exist in weeks, not quarters.
We've deliberately modelled this role on how the category is defined in the market - pioneered at Palantir and scaled by firms like OpenAI.

Sit with consultants, operators and end users to understand how decisions are actually made - then design around what you see, not what was described in a deck.
Design, build and demo agents and agentic applications that execute real work - document processing, research, analysis, operational automations, internal copilots, workflow accelerators.
Build Internal Solutions That Compound
Ship internal agents and tools that measurably accelerate how Elixirr delivers - from research and analysis to proposal shaping, document production and operational tasks.
Run tight feedback loops with the consultants and operators using what you build, and iterate aggressively on what's actually useful.
Partner with Elixirr's production engineering team when a prototype earns the right to become enterprise-grade software.
Understand the economics of what you build - where value is created, where cost sits, and what a realistic adoption path looks like inside a real organization.
you'd rather ship a rough v1 and learn than design the perfect v3 in a deck.
A rapidly expanding firm with room to grow your career, build your reputation and lead high-visibility work.
As an FDE at Elixirr, you will embed with our delivery teams and internal functions to go from idea to working prototype, and to build the internal tools and agents that accelerate how Elixirr itself delivers.

Technical Expertise
Experience
recent hands-on experience building LLM-powered or agentic applications.
Track record of embedding with users or customers - consulting, startup founding engineer, FDE, solutions engineering, internal platform teams, or similar.
Comfortable owning a product from problem discovery through to working prototype and iteration, and then handing off cleanly to a production team.
Strong full-stack or backend engineering fundamentals - Python, TypeScript/Node.js or similar - and the willingness to touch whatever layer the problem needs.
Practical fluency with modern LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG, tool use, evaluation and observability tooling.
Cloud-native experience on AWS and/or Azure (GCP a plus), with a working understanding of identity, data and deployment patterns.
Daily use of AI-assisted developer tools and agentic coding workflows - you build with AI, not just about it.
Business Acumen
Able to read a business: you understand revenue, cost, workflow and decision-making, and you use that understanding to shape what gets built and why.

Founding or early engineer experience at a startup.
Open-source contributions or public writing/speaking on agentic systems.
Impactful Work: Shape how a global consultancy - and its clients - operate as AI-native businesses.
Innovation Culture: Hands-on access to the latest models, agent frameworks and AI developer tooling, with the freedom to use them.
Mission-Driven Team: Join a diverse, entrepreneurial team that combines deep consulting craft with modern engineering and AI.
Stay engaged as a subject matter expert during productionization without becoming the bottleneck.
Navigate security, compliance, change management and data realities without using them as reasons to slow down.
Be the trusted technical voice leaders turn to when they want to know whether something is real or a demo - and say so honestly, either way.

Deploy into Elixirr delivery teams and internal functions to identify the highest-leverage AI opportunities inside real workflows.
Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete agentic solutions with clear success metrics and an honest view of the business case.
Take ideas from napkin to working prototype in days, not quarters.

Founded in 2009 to challenge a declining industry standard, we've grown from a single vision into a powerhouse of entrepreneurial talent, delivering boardroom strategy through to execution.
After IPO-ing on AIM in July 2020, Elixirr moved to the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in July 2025.
Our vision of becoming a services unicorn is firmly within reach - and this is just the beginning.

Hands-on access to the latest models, agent frameworks and AI developer tooling, with the freedom to use them.
We're looking for exceptional talent to join us on this exciting growth journey and shape the future of consulting.

This listing is sourced directly from Elixirr Consulting's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.