Foward Deployed Engineer

Leonardo UK Engineering is building internal AI Engineering Capability with engineers who deploy into Integrated Project Teams for short, scoped engagements. The role uses AI-enabled tooling to improve how a programme handles requirements, architecture, modelling, design, implementation and related engineering work. You will work within a small multi-disciplinary team in deep collaboration with our AI platform development team.

• →Deploy into a project – help to discover, scope and solve high value engineering problems with the platform’s tooling.

• →Collaborate with the AI platform team to make architecture and design decisions and with company process owners to change how we engineer

• →Build custom applications, workflows and templates to enable development, improvement of engineering products – from specifications to product implementation to supporting engineering modelling & simulation tooling.

• →Become an expert user: know the tooling’s opportunities and failure modes better than anyone else in the company.

• →Skill up the IPT’s engineers as you go — the team should be more capable after you leave than it was while you were there.

• High agency. You are curious, purposeful and proactive – you learn quickly and find ways to navigate complex organisational structures.

• Outcome oriented and data driven – you care about effecting real change for our engineers and our end customers.

• Write well enough that anything you leave behind is usable by a stranger six months later.

• Comfortable being measured on whether other people adopted something.

• Able to enter an unfamiliar programme, earn trust with a variety of stakeholders quickly, and leave without having become indispensable.

• Familiarity with LLMs, SLMs and Agentic AI as a user
• Programming and scripting, such as MATLAB, Simulink, Python, Bash
• Product and systems thinking

• You work across several programmes a year instead of one, and see how the business really engineers.

• You become the company’s expert user of tooling that will be everywhere in three years.

• The process change your project exposes becomes the new company standard — you change the method, not just the output.

• Your output is measured in other people’s capability, which is a rarer and more portable thing to have done.