Forward Deployed Engineer, Seal
£40-80k
+ 0.4% - 2% equity
5 days a week in office
Execution platform for scaling life-changing technologies
Be an early applicant
Execution platform for scaling life-changing technologies
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
£40-80k
+ 0.4% - 2% equity
5 days a week in office
1-20 employees
Company mission
Life-changing products in days, not decades.
Role
Who you are
- Smart, hungry, love to travel
What the job involves
- The immense cost and complexity of GxP validation has locked the Life Sciences industry out of the modern software and AI revolution. We are building the GxP-native foundation that lowers this barrier by orders of magnitude
- But a platform alone does not change an industry. Transformation happens when software meets reality inside regulated labs, QA teams, and operations groups. This role follows the Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer model. You are the force that makes that collision productive
- This is not a general developer role. You are an engineer who ships in the field. You embed with customers, understand their systems at first principles, and turn messy, high-stakes workflows into production software on our platform. You write code in real environments. You prototype. You debug. You re-architect. You ship
- Most of our customers are in the US. You will travel. Often. You will sit on-site with regulated teams, observe how work actually happens, and translate that reality into robust, compliant systems. You are the person who turns “this is impossible in GxP” into “it’s live.”
- Your work closes the loop between the world and the platform. You uncover edge cases no roadmap can predict. You pressure-test our abstractions. You surface the primitives the core platform must support next. Every hard deployment you complete makes the product stronger for every future customer
- We are a team of owners. You will not be handed tickets. You will be given missions: unlock a flagship account, prove a new workflow, make an impossible deployment succeed. Within that, you have absolute ownership over outcomes. If something is missing, you build it. If something is broken, you fix it. If something is unclear, you define it
- You must like to travel. You must like being on-site. You must be hungry. This is a role for people who want to be where the hardest problems live, who learn fastest in the real world, and who measure themselves by impact, not comfort
- The Forward Deployed Engineer is the spearhead of our mission. If the Palantir FDE model excites you and this intensity compels rather than intimidates you, you belong here
Application process
- Call with CEO
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Startups across R&D and manufacturing operate within a highly competitive climate of first past the post. Getting products to market fast is vital to maintaining an edge over competitors, especially with the rapidly evolving nature of technology. Seal - formerly Opvia - helps companies build custom process operating systems to streamline workflows and accelerate the creation of their products.
Seal’s software includes pre-built blueprints for life science R&D and workflows for manufacturing operations, thus covering the pre-production and production stages of a product pipeline. These tools can be integrated into a company’s pre existing tech stack, ensuring that no information is siloed.
Spun out from the prestigious Y Combinator in 2020, Seal is working with companies across biotech, pharma, food and beverages, engineering and medical devices, sectors with strong customer bases that will remain essential for years to come.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
38% female employees
Glassdoor (3.5)
Company
Company benefits
- Bonus/Comission Scheme
- Equity Scheme
- Cycle2Work
- Breakfast/Dinner on the company
- Friday Team Lunch
- x2 Away Weeks per year, previous locations include Sicily and Portugal
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Will Moss
(Founder & CEO)Will founded Seal in 2019, with the backing of Y Combinator, having previously worked as a Data Scientist after studying ChemEng at Cambridge.
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