Why this Forward Deployed AI Engineer position is like Silver.

Join a hypergrowth SaaS scaleup. Embrace the ambiguity. Match the pace. Relish pizza Fridays. Get used to the taste of Red Bull. Every scrappy day makes things a little more shiny. Shiny like atomic mass 107.87, group 11, period 5.

Silver sits at the intersection of chemistry, economics and history. You'll sit with Product and Engineering teams to understand their workflows and design bespoke AI-powered solutions. The chemistry will be electric. The savings will be real. And you’ll be making history. Aw man that’s so sweet.

You’ll be the human face of our cutting-edge, AI-powered suite of products. A brand ambassador. A confidante. Able to hold a room with that silver tongue of yours. And ship production code, ably assisted by your good friend Claude.

Able to scope, build and refine raw ideas the way silver gets refined from ore. Until what is left is something clean, valuable and ready to ship.

You'll need a challenger mindset, sharp as a freshly struck silver coin. You ask questions. The right questions. The difficult questions. Like a 5-year old who keeps asking why.

You’re comfortable in a rapidly expanding environment. Like a marshmallow in a microwave. Pssst! never put silver in a microwave.

Silver absorbs and reflects light better than almost anything else. You’ll need the ability to absorb sales, product and marketing messages. Like a sponge in a bath.

One of the most electrically and thermally conductive metals, silver moves seamlessly between roles, carrying current one moment and heat the next. You’re built the same way. Highly adaptable, sitting with the customer one minute, shipping product the next.

Investment-grade silver bullion is stored in boxes, inside vaults, locked down, accounted to the gram. You have an entrepreneurial mindset that thinks "outside the box" without using air quotes.

Silver is a safe have asset with a split personality. Half its demand is industrial, so its price swings more wildly. Investors call it "gold with a temper.” No split personalities or temper tantrums here please, you need to schmooooze our customers.

You’ll build solutions in real time, using AI tools as a core element. Silver is an element with chemical symbol "Ag". Funnily enough, Argentina named itself after early mistaken hopes of vast silver deposits. And England had early mistaken hopes of beating them in a WC semi-final.

Be the silver thread running through the room. Comfortable presenting, running workshops, debugging live, and making architectural calls on the spot. The bridge between the business and technical teams. The element that quietly holds the whole circuit together. Calling everyone "colleague" so there's no chance of getting any names wrong.

Silver is so ductile it can be compressed and drawn into wire finer than a human hair. You’ll compress weeks of work into days. Prototype in hours, deploy at speed, and treat AI copilots and agents as genuine force multipliers.

Feed learnings back in the core product roadmap. Not just deploying, but reflecting back what gets built next. Silver is the most reflective metal, bouncing back over 95% of visible light. Which is why it’s the goto coating for mirrors and telescope optics.

Silver can be drawn into wire over a mile long from a single ounce without snapping. You’ve got the same range - opinions about prompting, context management, agent tools/graphs and agentic tool calling - stretched thin enough to hold under pressure without breaking.

Build reusable components so the next deployment is faster than the last. Silver is almost infinitely reusable and can be melted down and recast without losing any of its properties.

Silver sits in group 11 alongside copper and gold: same family, same core conductivity, different form. You move between frameworks the same way, without missing a beat. Comfortable across the full stack: Python and heavy-lifting API integration on the backend, React/Angular on the frontend, AWS/Terraform for infra.

Leverage Claude Code (or similar) to complete routine tasks, from scaffolding a UI to debugging production incidents. Lean heavily on agent orchestration. You’ll play the role of conductor. Copper conducts well, but silver conducts better.

Silver tarnishes fast. It’s meant to be useful, not kept pristine under glass. A bias towards shipping over polishing works the same way. Better to have something working in front of the customer, tarnish and all, than flawlessly perfect in the next sprint.

To hold its shape under real use, silver needs to be alloyed, normally with copper. Ideally you have prior startup/scaleup exposure and have moved fast enough to need guardrails. Your very own alloy, if you like, forged under pressure.

Silver shows wear the moment it meets real air, real hands, real use. You will get the same direct exposure: seeing exactly how customers actually use (and break) our product.

You’ll be embedded with teams that treat AI as core infrastructure, not a novelty. Silver is no novelty metal, but rather quietly goes about its business, doing the electrical and thermal heavy lifting in everything from wiring to satellites.

You’ll enjoy high autonomy. High ownership. High accountability. High execution velocity. And high delivery cadence. Silver is used in high-value electronic components.

Silver nitrate was an early invisible ink. Write with it, and the message stays hidden until exposed to light. Your inquisitive mind will surface hidden requirements, edge cases and real problems that are invisible to our customers.

Don't just rock up, decorate the surface and disappear without a trace. Vark is an edible, decorative silver leaf prevalent in South Asian and Middle Eastern sweets. It is tasteless. Don’t be vark. Just be fark. Farking good.

Photographic film originally relied on silver halide crystals. Silver was thus the backbone of photography for over a century. You’ll be our backbone today. The reliable standard that customer teams will build against.

Dropping a silver coin to the sound of a distinct metallic ring used to mean the real deal, a dull thud meant a fake. Customers will run the same test. Drop into their world and make sure your solutions ring true and not land with a thud.

Silver ions disrupt bacterial cell function. Which is why silverware was historically a hygiene choice, not just a luxury flex. Work with our customers to leave things cleaner than when you found them. No flex required - just results.

Folklore ties silver to warding off threats: werewolves, vampires, things that go bump in the night. You’ll be the ward against a different kind of threat: technical debt, scope creep, that production incident in the middle of the night that nobody wants to own. No garlic required.

So in short… if you’re part sponge, part marshmallow and have a background in forward deployed, solutions engineering or technical professional services you should get in touch.

All you have to do is share a CV and short covering letter. That’s right, you don’t fish without a hook. Especially not at the £125,000+ level.