Forward Deployed Engineer, Platform

About Boltz

Boltz is a public benefit company building the next generation of AI-powered molecular modeling tools to make biology programmable and accelerate drug discovery, while keeping frontier capabilities broadly accessible.

Boltz began as an MIT spin-out. Our founders built Boltz-1 at MIT, and it became the first fully open-source model to match AlphaFold 3's accuracy in predicting the 3D structure of biomolecular complexes.

We focus on two things

• Open foundation models. Boltz-1, Boltz-2, and BoltzGen are open models trusted by 100,000+ scientists across biotech and academia, and used in programs at every Top 20 pharma as well as leading agrichemical and industrial research organizations.
• Boltz Lab. Our commercial platform runs our latest models and design agents as reliable, production-grade tools built around real chemistry and biology workflows. Teams start from a target and a hypothesis, then generate, evaluate, and rank candidate molecules, while we provide the compute, infrastructure, and collaboration layer so their scientists can move faster.

The two feed each other: open-source adoption earns scientific credibility and community insight, and Boltz Lab turns that into real impact on our partners' discovery programs.

You can read more about our mission, research and product vision in our manifesto.

About the role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will own getting Boltz Lab running inside our enterprise customers' environments, and keeping it running. Large pharma partners often need our platform deployed in their own cloud or tenant, and how fast and smoothly we do that decides how quickly they can start real discovery work; our goal is a full enterprise deployment in under 30 days.

You will work closely with customers' IT, security and cloud teams, our Platform and Product engineers, and our Commercial team.

This role is ideal for someone who likes being the engineer in the room with the customer, is calm when a deployment breaks, and turns every hard install into a faster one next time.

What you'll do

• Lead deployments of Boltz Lab into customer cloud environments and dedicated tenants, from kickoff to acceptance.
• Work through each customer's networking, identity, security and compliance requirements, and track blockers to resolution.
• Support live tenants against agreed service targets: monitoring, upgrades, incident response and root-cause fixes.
• Automate what you learn into infrastructure-as-code, deployment tooling and runbooks, so each deployment takes less time than the last.
• Bring what you see in the field back to Platform and Product, from missing features to security and compliance needs (including our SOC 2 and ISO work).

About you

Minimum Requirements

• Experience deploying and operating production software on cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS, GCP or Azure), as a DevOps, SRE, infrastructure or solutions engineer. We're hiring at Junior to Senior level.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, Docker and infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform), plus solid Linux, networking and scripting (Python or Bash).
• Working knowledge of enterprise security: identity and SSO, network isolation, secrets management and access control.
• A track record of getting deployments or migrations over the line under real constraints and deadlines.
• Clear, confident communication with technical customers, and the judgment to know when to escalate.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience in a customer-facing engineering role (forward deployed, solutions or implementation engineering), especially with pharma, biotech or other regulated enterprises.
• Experience running GPU workloads, or ML systems in production; exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001 or similar compliance work.
• Early-stage startup experience; experience using Boltz models or open-source contributions.

We know great people don't always tick every box. If this role excites you and you meet most of the minimum requirements, we'd like to hear from you.

What we offer

• Own how Boltz Lab reaches the world's leading pharma teams.
• Work alongside one of the most talent-dense teams in the field.
• Significant ownership and independence, with responsibility for driving projects from concept to deployment.
• Highly competitive salary with meaningful equity in a public benefit company.
• Benefits:
• 25 days plus bank holidays a year
• Annual team offsite trip
• Private healthcare (BUPA), covering pre-existing conditions
• Pension program
• Paid parental leave
• Wellhub gym membership
• Free lunch every day
• Travel expenses

How we hire

1. Initial screen with a member of the Talent team
2. Technical interview: a deployment and troubleshooting scenario
3. Onsite in London with the team
4. Offer + Onboarding

Our commitment

Boltz is committed to building a diverse team and an inclusive workplace. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds. If you need any adjustments during the hiring process, tell us and we'll make it work.