About the Position

Forward Deployed Engineer (H/F/NB)

Why Join Keyrus Today?

Keyrus is an international group of 2,800 consultants and experts present in 28 countries, driven by a strong belief: it's not artificial intelligence that transforms companies, but intelligence designed, structured, and integrated into their operations.

For over 30 years, we have been building the data foundations that enable intelligent systems to create value. We design the operating system of the intelligent enterprise, where data, AI, and human expertise integrate at the heart of business processes to generate sustainable performance. At Keyrus, we bring operational intelligence to life.

Artificial intelligence does not replace humans. It allows them to focus on what no system can replicate: understanding, deciding, designing, and innovating. Joining Keyrus means building your judgment, expertise, and ability to solve complex problems.

Technology is an accelerator. The Keyrus culture makes the difference. Operational excellence connects the two.

Role Overview

The Forward Deployed Engineer goes to the heart of a real client issue to transform an intention into a measurable operational result in just a few weeks. Once the field is understood, they become the reference on which the team relies to ensure the result is sustained, in collaboration with the Foundations Architect, the Business Value Advisor, the AI Engineer, and the Data Engineer. The Software Engineer then industrializes these solutions into robust applications, the Data Trust & AI Governance Manager ensures compliance and traceability, and the Service Delivery Manager ensures long-term sustainability. What they build for a client does not remain unique: they abstract it into a reusable pattern, so that each mission reinforces the next.

What Awaits You

You intervene at the core of our clients' issues to deploy artificial intelligence in an operational and measurable way, not just in a framing workshop.
You engage the technical and business teams of the client and Keyrus, and become the trusted interlocutor of decision-makers throughout the mission.
You continuously adapt your delivery: listening, adapting, producing, and being agile, without waiting for a fixed specification to move forward.
You produce and lay the first groundwork with maximum autonomy, without aiming for absolute expertise in each technical component, then project them sustainably with the Foundations Architect and technical teams.
You design and lay the measurement probes of ROI and value created, including inference cost, to demonstrate a result rather than declare it.
You locate, qualify, and secure access to the data necessary for each use case, in direct connection with the Data Engineer.
You rely on the Business Value Advisor for the business and sectoral depth of the subject treated.
You abstract what works into a reusable pattern, so that a client's solution feeds the platform and benefits the next mission, rather than remaining an isolated deliverable.

What You Bring

The Architect of Intelligence Foundation: essential qualities, present in the criteria below: curiosity, creativity, communication, professional conscience, culture, ability to do.

Experience and Background

Significant experience working in a demanding client environment, with direct exposure to decision-makers, regardless of your starting point: ESN, software publisher, startup, or final client side DSI or business.
A track record that demonstrates a real ability to transform a complex use case or process into a delivered and measured result, not just presented in a steering committee.
Proven practice in deploying AI in production, or failing that, a technical delivery with high business stakes and a high level of uncertainty.

Attitude and Mindset

Natural ease in client interface: this role requires being exposed and judged on the result continuously, and remaining comfortable under this pressure, which is not given to everyone.
Genuine curiosity about the client's business, not just the technology: the desire to understand the stakes before proposing a solution.
Ability to move forward without a complete specification, to decide quickly, and to adapt continuously, without waiting for validation at each stage.
Autonomy and a true entrepreneurial spirit: you build your mission, it is not entirely drawn for you.
Product reflex: faced with a working solution, your first instinct is to ask what, in what you have just built, can serve the next mission.
Ability to produce, document, and transmit what you set up, so that the mission holds beyond your presence on the ground.

Essential Technical and Functional Skills

End-to-end understanding of an AI value chain, from data to deployed agent, without necessarily being the executor of each component.
Ability to abstract a client solution into a reusable pattern or product brick, according to a land → expand → abstract logic, rather than delivering disposable custom work.
Comparative knowledge of the main models and providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral, Google Gemini, etc.), sufficient to guide client choices.
Ability to communicate technically with the Foundations Architect and the AI Engineer, and to translate the stakes for the Business Value Advisor and the client.
Mastery of value and ROI measurement, including inference cost (AI FinOps).
Production, documentation, and transmission of mission deliverables, so that they remain exploitable beyond your presence.
Professional fluency in English, both written and spoken: essential, regardless of your level of experience.

What Drives Us

Collective Intelligence

Collaboration between expertise, business, and geography allows us to combine know-how and provide more complete answers to our clients' challenges.

Reliability

Our ability to deliver complex projects with rigor and exacting standards is one of the foundations of the trust relationship we build with our clients.

Pragmatism

We prioritize concrete impact and measurable value creation over abstract technological discourse.

Entrepreneurial Spirit

Curiosity, energy, and autonomy are at the heart of our culture. They foster initiative, innovation, and the continuous development of our expertise.

About Keyrus

At Keyrus, we accompany organizations in their transition from experimental AI to industrialized AI, from isolated agents to orchestrated systems, and from analysis to execution. This expertise is what we call the Architecture of Intelligence.

Thanks to our proprietary Human Orchestrated Model™ (HOM), we design intelligent environments based on three fundamental pillars: robust and reliable data and intelligence foundations; governance ensuring that the human remains at the heart of decision-making; and performance monitoring mechanisms enabling continuous improvement.

With over 30 years of expertise and 2,800 employees in 28 countries, Keyrus accompanies companies far beyond their transformation.

Keyrus is listed on Euronext Growth Paris (ALKEY – ISIN code: FR0004029411).

Department: Architect of Intelligence

Locations: Bordeaux, Nantes, Rennes, Toulouse

Remote Status: Hybrid

Contract Type: CDI

Contact:

Alexandra Damart

Senior International Talent Acquisition Expert

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Our Culture

A multicultural environment, training, and promoting international mobility. Our success depends on your success and fulfillment: we are rich in exchanges and projects where initiative and teamwork are valued.

Forward Deployed Engineer (H/F/NB)

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