Some of the most important advances in AI will come from exceptional engineers working where technology meets the real world. At Sand, Forward Deployed Engineers take on that challenge. You will work at the frontier of what AI can do, alongside the people running essential systems, with the freedom to discover what is possible and the responsibility to make it work.
This is one of Sand’s most demanding and influential engineering roles. You will tackle problems without an established answer, turn emerging technology into products people depend on, and help determine what the company builds next. The discoveries you make with one customer can become capabilities that transform how entire industries operate.
Your work could help protect a city’s water supply, strengthen healthcare for millions of people, improve critical energy infrastructure or give a Formula E team an advantage when seconds matter. You will see your ideas tested against real conditions and witness the difference they make.
We are looking for engineers with the technical depth to build, the imagination to see what could be better and the determination to make it happen. If you want extraordinary responsibility, exceptional colleagues and the chance to shape the next generation of AI products, this is where you can do your most consequential work.
Sand Technologies is a global Physical AI company building intelligent systems for the infrastructure society depends on.
We partner with governments, cities and enterprises to improve how essential systems operate across healthcare, water, energy, telecommunications and infrastructure. Our teams have built AI systems that help manage London’s water supply for 16 million customers, supported telecommunications planning across hundreds of cities (and islands), and developed digital healthcare platforms serving millions of people across Africa.
Our work also takes us into less conventional environments. Through our partnership with Envision Racing, we have applied AI and data science to Formula E race analysis—helping engineers process complex performance data faster and improve decision-making during highly time-constrained race weekends.
Across these projects, the principle is the same: use AI to understand the physical world, make better decisions and improve outcomes that matter.
Our mission is to harness AI to solve humanity’s most pressing challenges.
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Forward Deployed Engineers are the problem solvers and product builders at Sand’s customer frontline. You will help determine what we build by working directly with the people who need it.
Embedded in the customer’s environment, you will discover high-value problems, test ideas and take solutions from prototype through production and adoption. You will use and extend Sand’s existing products, building new features and tools where customer needs reveal gaps.
Your responsibility extends beyond an individual deployment. Working with fellow FDEs, you will identify recurring customer needs and the capabilities that repeatedly prove useful. You will bring that evidence directly into product decisions, working with Product and Platform Engineering to define and prioritise what becomes part of Sand’s shared platform.
This role combines deep technical execution, product discovery, customer partnership and commercial awareness. You will be trusted to form a point of view, challenge assumptions and remain accountable for results. Your work will shape both the outcome for the customer in front of you and the capabilities available to the next team.
Your success will be measured through the customer outcomes you deliver and the product capabilities you help create.
Discover the problems worth solving
Shape Sand’s product roadmap
Build, deploy and own the outcome
Drive adoption and champion the product
You are likely to thrive in this role if you:
We’re looking for strong fundamentals rather than one exact technology stack. Relevant experience may include:
Experience in energy, utilities, healthcare, telecommunications, government or another asset-intensive industry is valuable, but not essential.
At Sand, we own outcomes, not simply tasks or functions.
We bring together engineers, scientists, product builders and industry experts from across the world to solve problems that rarely fit neatly within one discipline. You may begin a week inside a customer’s operational environment, spend the next few days building and testing a prototype, and finish presenting the results to senior decision-makers or working with our platform team to turn your approach into a reusable capability.
You will have considerable autonomy, but you will not work alone. You’ll be surrounded by deeply capable colleagues who share context freely, challenge one another thoughtfully and step across conventional role boundaries when the problem requires it.
We value people who are curious enough to ask better questions, practical enough to ship, and ambitious enough to believe AI can (and should) make the systems people rely on work better.
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Sandtech Holdings Limited operates in industries such as healthcare, water, energy, and telecommunications.