Principal Deployment Engineer - AI Project Controls
About the role
nPlan is a Series B startup backed by leading investors, including GV (formerly Google Ventures) and DeepMind’s founder, Sir Demis Hassabis. Our technology helps the world’s biggest construction projects make faster, more confident, data‑driven decisions by combining one of the world’s largest datasets of project plans with advanced machine learning to forecast outcomes and reduce risk. We are looking for a Principal Deployment Engineer with deep expertise in project controls, risk analysis and complex construction schedules of major projects to join and help shape our growing client team. You will be a senior technical voice for clients, a go‑to point of judgement on the toughest schedule and risk problems, and will help clients maximise the value they get from nPlan while developing the people around you and contributing to the industry’s transformation.
Responsibilities
- Acting as the senior trusted advisor to our most strategically important clients, including at senior stakeholder level, on how they maximise the value they get from nPlan.
- Owning and growing our most complex or highest‑value client relationships, and acting as an escalation point across the wider client portfolio when things get technically or politically tricky.
- Defining how the product should be configured to bring maximum value for our most complex clients, and setting the standard other client engineers follow.
- Owning strategic projects end‑to‑end that improve how we embed our products within client organisations, including