Talent Acquisition – Forward Deployed Engineers

Our mission. We make AI software deliver the value it promises, measured in euros on the client's P&L, not in slides.

Our story. The FDE Company was founded in 2026 by Devoteam, one of Europe's leading technology consultancies, in partnership with OSS Ventures, the studio behind Europe's largest portfolio of industrial AI software. TWe embed Forward Deployed Engineers inside our clients’ operations, starting with industry and supply chain. They are engineers who write production code on the client's site, frame the business case, defend the number in front of an executive committee, and stay until the client's CFO validates the gains.

Our values. These are filters for fit, not wall decorations. They govern how we hire as much as how we deploy.

- Impact, not reports. A hire is measured by what that engineer delivers in their first year, not by the number of CVs sent.

- Ship in weeks. A candidate who waits three weeks for an answer has signed elsewhere.

- The floor is the truth. A CV says one thing; the code, the references and the case say another. We believe the evidence.

- Ownership without borders. If a step of the process is broken, you fix it, even when it belongs to someone else.

- Humility as a method. «I don't understand this profile yet» is how good sourcing starts.

Why we're hiring for this role

Some engineers can hold a room with a with an operations director in the morning and ship production code in the afternoon. They are the rarest profile in European B2B software so e decided to build them ourselves. We hire fast learning juniors, train them in our FDE School, and embed them alongside senior engineers who already do the job.

That plan depends on one thing above all: finding the people. Every Senior FDE we hire opens one junior seat, so the pace of senior hiring sets the pace of the whole company. Today, hiring runs on the time of people who have other jobs: an HR partner, our technical interviewers, the managing director. You are the first person whose whole job is this. The funnel, the scorecard discipline and the playbook you build become the standard for every recruiter who joins after you.

In a nutshell. You own the FDE hiring funnel from first message to signed offer, for every rank from junior engineer to senior. You find people who aren't looking and sell them a role most of them have never heard of. You filter them against a bar we don't lower, and you run a process fast enough that the best ones don't go elsewhere.

Must-haves

Nice-to-haves (we'll be glad, we won't require)

This role is probably not for you if…

Career path

You are the first recruiter of a company built to scale across Europe. As the FDE corps grows, the role grows with it, into leading The FDE Company's talent team across countries. Beyond that, the talent and HR leadership of the Devoteam group is open to you. Scope here is earned by the quality of your hires, not by tenure.

Office / Remote : Paris office, hybrid

Travel : Occasional: engineering schools, FDE School sessions, recruiting events, and a few client sites so you see the job you hire for

Equipment : AI-native sourcing and productivity stack

Our hiring process

1. Application + written question / You / ~1h / Your CV, plus one page answering this question: how would you find ten Senior FDEs in Paris in 60 days? No cover letter.

2. Screen / HR partner / 30 min / Motivation, track record, mutual fit

3. Sourcing case / Managing Director / 60 min / You bring five anonymized profiles that match our FDE job description, plus the message you'd send to each. We discuss your choices.

4. Live screening / Senior FDE / 45 min / You run a fact screening on one of our engineers playing a candidate, then defend your OK/KO.

5. Values + leadership / Managing Director / 45 min / Working style, ownership stories, two references

6. Offer / 48h / Written offer within 48 hours of the decision

We hold ourselves to the same commitments we make to our engineers. You get written feedback at every stage and a GO / NO GO within a few business days. We reach a final decision within four weeks of first contact.

A word to our candidates

Most recruiters spend their careers filling roles someone else defined. This one asks you to define how a new profession gets hired in Europe. The profile is rare, the bar is high, and the people you bring in will decide whether AI actually works in the businesses they walk into. If you want your hires to be the measure of your work, we want to hear from you. We'll be honest with you the whole way through, and we'd ask the same back.

Additional Information

Le Groupe Devoteam œuvre pour l'égalité des chances, pour la promotion de ses collaboratrices et de ses collaborateurs au mérite et lutte activement contre toute forme de discrimination. Nous sommes persuadés que la diversité contribue à la créativité, au dynamisme et à l'excellence de notre organisation. Tous nos postes sont ouverts aux personnes en situation de handicap.