Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

About this role

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations.

Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. About the role Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) sit at the intersection of engineering and customer impact.

This is not a traditional product engineering role - it's built for engineers who want their work to directly shape outcomes for Synthesia's most strategic customers and partners, often within days, not sprints. You'll be embedded in high-value customer engagements, working alongside Sales, Solutions, and Customer Success to design, build, and ship bespoke technical solutions that unlock use cases no off-the-shelf feature could address.

You'll own the full arc - from a whiteboard conversation with a customer's CTO through to a working, deployed integration - and you'll do it fast. This role is for engineers who are super scrappy, fast-learning, and ambitious - people who might not pass every bar of a traditional product engineering process but who consistently find creative ways to get things built and shipped in the real world. What You'll Do Work directly with Synthesia's most strategic customers and partners to design and build bespoke technical solutions that unlock high-value use cases on their behalf.

Own the full build cycle for custom engagements: from scoping and architecture through to delivery, with a bias toward speed and impact over broad reusability. Bridge technical and business stakeholders - equally fluent in conversations with engineers and architects as with senior decision-makers on the customer or partner side. Translate ambiguous customer requirements into working prototypes and production-grade solutions in tight timelines.