Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Optimization)

Enterprise productivity across Europe is under pressure. As complexity increases through geopolitical shifts, labour constraints, and tighter operational interdependencies, many organisations observe that AI and optimization efforts improve local efficiency but fail to deliver structural, enterprise-level gains.

At Superlinear, we work on this gap through enterprise orchestration: enabling better system-level decision-making across people, processes, and machines in environments where siloed optimization no longer works.

In our earliest pilots with leading European enterprises, we observe that moving from local optimization to coordinated, enterprise-wide decisions can unlock significant latent capacity. Productivity gains in the range of 10–30% are achievable by reducing systemic friction rather than adding infrastructure. 

The 500 largest European enterprises represent roughly €14 trillion in economic output. Enabling even a fraction of them to structurally improve productivity would have impact beyond individual companies.

This is a long-term effort that requires rigor, restraint, and people who care deeply about their craft, take responsibility for outcomes, and are comfortable working on complex, high-stakes systems. This role offers the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the foundations of enterprise orchestration in Europe’s most critical organisations.

That's why we are hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer with a focus on Optimization. 

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Optimization), you take end-to-end ownership of complex deployment challenges. You work hands-on at the intersection of optimization, software engineering, and enterprise systems, embedding with clients to ensure that decision-making solutions are not only technically sound, but adopted, scalable, and impactful.

You are a senior member of the team: still deeply involved in implementation, but increasingly responsible for technical direction, quality, and coherence across deployments. You help shape how we build and deploy, not just what we deliver.

• Design and deploy scalable optimization systems (planning, scheduling, allocation, routing) that directly influence operational decisions

• Translate functional analyses into robust technical solutions, while challenging complexity that does not materially improve outcomes

• Take ownership of end-to-end problem resolution, coordinating stakeholders to converge on effective solutions

• Balance optimality, maintainability, scalability, and time-to-impact in production environments

• Make regular, meaningful contributions across the stack, including APIs, data integrations, CI/CD, and infrastructure components

• Coordinate solutions at an architectural level, ensuring alignment with our platform’s guiding principles

• Identify, track, and plan the resolution of technical debt, explaining trade-offs and business impact clearly

• Promote consistent implementation patterns across clients to improve reliability and speed of delivery

• Promote high code quality through reviews, standards, and pragmatic guidance

• Actively participate in sprint planning and prioritisation, balancing short-term impact with long-term maintainability

• Help others choose straightforward, effective solutions over unnecessary complexity

• Use AI tooling thoughtfully to accelerate development and help others do the same

• Mentor Forward Deployed Engineers through code reviews, technical discussions, and follow-up

• Encourage and structure feedback loops from deployments into the Product team and Superlinear Playbook

• Maintain a holistic understanding of the platform’s stack and how it interacts with diverse client environments

• Foster a safe, meritocratic decision-making environment where ideas are evaluated on evidence and impact