Forward Deployed Product Engineer

• Job Title: Forward Deployed Product Engineer
• Location: London; full in-office working as default
• Start date: ASAP
• Reports to: Head of Engineering
• Compensation: £100,000 - £120,000 + EQUITY

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Cosine at a glance

Cosine is the UK's frontier AI lab for autonomous software engineering — not another coding assistant, but our own models, agent stack, eval harnesses, and product layer. We build our agent tooling entirely in-house and post-train open-source models to deliver reliable, enterprise-grade coding performance in security-critical settings.

Our offerings can be used as SaaS, deployed on VPC, on-prem or fully air-gapped. Through this flexability, we are able to service large-scale, highly regulated enterprises and industries including defence, financial service and healthcare.

We’re backed by YC and were recently selected for the UK’s sovereign AI programme. The company is at a rare stage: deep technical work, real enterprise pull, and a chance to shape how AI is deployed inside defence, banking, government, and other high-trust environments.

This role is based in our Hoxton office, five days a week, because close collaboration, fast feedback, and shared context matter for the problems we’re solving.

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The role

A Forward Deployed Product Engineer at Cosine works directly with customers and closely across research, engineering, infrastructure, product, and design to turn advanced AI capabilities into intuitive, reliable tools for developers, and deploy them successfully in complex customer environments.

You will be responsible for building and evolving Cosine’s user-facing product surfaces, including dedicated apps and web applications that expose the power of our models through well-designed workflows and interfaces. Your work sits at the intersection of product, platform, and research, translating emerging model capabilities into concrete experiences developers can use every day.

You will work directly with customers to assess their needs, understand their workflows and technical constraints, and design and help implement solutions that meet those needs. You will take ownership of deploying, integrating, and troubleshooting Cosine in complex, security-critical environments, bringing what you learn back into the core product. Hands-on full-stack product development is a central part of the role.

We focus on rapid product iteration without compromising quality. This means building systems that are performant, observable, and robust, while remaining flexible enough to evolve alongside fast-moving research and user needs. You will help define how developers interact with Cosine, from first use through advanced, production-grade workflows.

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Your Mission

Push the boundaries of what an autonomous agentic AI engineer can do by building scalable, high-quality web application interfaces and integrations that expose the power of our models in intuitive, reliable ways, and working directly with customers to deploy solutions that meet their needs in complex environments.

Responsibilities

Build end-user products (command line interfaces, web applications and platform capabilities) that integrate with the Cosine platform APIs

Work directly with customers to assess their needs, workflows, infrastructure, and security constraints, and translate these into solution designs and implementation plans

Own the technical delivery of customer solutions, from deployment and integration with existing systems through troubleshooting and reliable production use

Diagnose and resolve issues across application code, APIs, infrastructure, and customer environments, collaborating with customer teams and internal specialists

Feed customer requirements and deployment learnings back into reusable product features and integrations

Enable developers to use advanced language models to augment their workflows and problem-solving capabilities

Collaborate closely research to explore and validate new product experiences and capabilities

Translate emerging model capabilities into concrete, user-facing features

Maintain a high bar for performance, reliability, and usability across platforms

Be opinionated about and bring your own ideas to the table, we’re building for engineers, as an engineer you have a say in what you want to use.

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Skills & Experience

Forward Deployed Engineering & Customer Delivery

Prior experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer is required

Must hold current security clearance

Experience working directly with customers to assess their needs and translate business requirements, technical constraints, and security requirements into practical solution designs

Hands-on experience deploying, integrating, and troubleshooting software in complex customer environments

Ability to own technical delivery from discovery and solution design through implementation and production support

Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical customer stakeholders

Frontend & Application Development

Experience building reactive, highly interactive applications (React, Svelte, Vue)

Experience with cli application development or local software development is a plus

Backend & Systems

Experience with backend development

Experience designing and consuming REST APIs

Developer Experience

Experience working with developer tooling

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines

Experience with containerization

Programming Languages

Strong experience with TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks

Knowledge of Node.js, Python, and Go is a plus

Tooling & Infrastructure

Git, Docker, Webpack, npm, Kubernetes, GCP

Monitoring and alerting tools (e.g. Grafana, Datadog)

Feature flagging systems

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You Might Thrive in This Role If You:

Have 5+ years of experience building production-grade software.

Have shipped and maintained complex frontend or full-stack applications used by technical users.

Are comfortable building highly interactive web or IDE-based experiences using modern frameworks (e.g. React, TypeScript).

Have experience designing and consuming APIs, and understand how frontend and backend systems evolve together.

Enjoy working directly with customers, understanding their needs, and taking responsibility for making solutions work in their environments.

Are comfortable moving between hands-on full-stack product development, customer-facing solution design, and deployment troubleshooting.

Enjoy working close to the product surface, translating ambiguous ideas and model capabilities into intuitive developer workflows.

Care deeply about developer experience, performance, and reliability - not just functionality.

Are comfortable iterating quickly, running experiments, and refining products based on real user feedback.

Can operate effectively in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities and incomplete information.

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Cosine is an equal opportunity employer.

We value diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and ways of thinking, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive and respectful workplace.

We encourage applications from anyone who meets the role requirements, even if you don’t meet every single qualification. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the hiring process, we’re happy to discuss them.

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Compensation, Benefits & Ways of Working

We’re an in-office team, five days a week, by design. We believe