--- title: 'Founding Deployed Engineer at Delfa AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/founding-deployed-engineer-delfa-ai-london-ebey36aht4my' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-17' --- # Founding Deployed Engineer at Delfa AI - **Company:** Delfa AI - **Location:** London, United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-04-16 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/delfa/60136600-fb64-4a30-8632-c80304b139b5 ## Job description ## About Delfa Billions of people still suffer from every-day diseases. One key reason? Clinical trials are broken. Despite $120 billion spent each year, most trials are delayed due to bottlenecks like patient recruitment. Delfa is fixing this with autonomous AI agents. We're building AI agents to automate clinical trials. In less than a year from launch we've already: - Deployed onto 300+ trials across multiple conditions - Reached seven figures in ARR, growing 22% MoM - Raised an oversubscribed $3.8m seed from tier-one AI investors ## Overview Delfa is at a critical inflection: we have a proven offering which is on track to support the recruitment of thousands of participants into trials in 2026, while simultaneously expanding our offerings with new products for biopharmaceutical companies. We are hiring a Founding Deployed Engineer to own the conversion of pilots, success of new customers and identification of new product opportunities. You will be responsible for deeply understanding our customer needs and working shoulder-to-shoulder to solve them. ## What You'll Do - Own the pilot-to-customer conversion process end-to-end, from onboarding, value quantification through to expansion - Build scalable onboarding processes and playbooks that can work across a growing customer base - Deploy AI agents to handle onboarding grunt work and free up time for high-leverage customer interactions - Work directly with customers to extract validated product insights and quickly prototype solutions to test them - Spot patterns across the customer base and package them up for engineering so the right things get built - Help open and grow our US presence as we expand our commercial team there You'll Be A Great Fit If… - You are technical and commercial in equal measure: You're comfortable writing code to prototype a solution and equally comfortable sitting in front of a customer explaining why it matters. The bridge between those two worlds is where you live. - You are obsessed with feedback loops: You understand that in a world where code is cheap, the real bottleneck is extracting validated ideas from customers fast. You build systems and habits to make that happen. - You thrive in complexity: Clinical trial sites are regulated, risk-averse organisations with high stakes. You know how to build trust with them and how to show them value in a way that meets them where they are. - You don't wait for instruction: You identify the problem, define the solution, and move. When you see a pattern across three customers, you've already written the proposal before anyone asks you to. - You love using AI: You reach for Claude, Cursor, or whatever the right tool is to ship faster. You're experimenting constantly and sharing what you learn. Life at Delfa Delfa is building a generational company to transform the way medications reach millions of patients in need. This is your opportunity to get in on the ground floor and work alongside the highest talent density team in the space, onsite at our London office 5 days a week: - A wine-snob who built foundation models at Roche at ETH Zurich - A former hedge fund trader with world class causal AI knowledge - A medical doctor turned AI engineer who builds prototypes on the weekend for fun - A ginger bloke who deployed production AI for J&J, Medtronic, and Exscientia ## What We Offer - Competitive salary + meaningful equity - Private health insurance and gym membership - 25 days' holiday + UK public holidays - Modern office space 5 mins from Old Street station - True 0 → 1 ownership. Our Hiring Process We work to get you an offer within a week with a lean process: - Intro chat with Tom (CEO) - 30 mins: A discussion about your experience, values, and career goals, and an opportunity to get a sense of the role and the team. After this call we may ask you to share some work you're proud of. - Case Study Interview - 90 mins: A deeper dive into how you approach complex customer and product problems, and the chance to understand more about what we're building. - Technical Challenge - 90 mins: We'll invite you to our office and give you a real customer scenario to work through with us. It's the best opportunity for you to truly see if this is the right role for you — and for us to see how you'd collaborate. - Offer ## About Delfa AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Delfa AI builds AI-powered agents that automate patient recruitment, pre-screening, scheduling, and engagement for clinical research sites. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with presence in United Kingdom, Argentina, and Switzerland) - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Tom Farrand (CEO) and Gustav Bredell (CTO) ## Core Business - Primary industry: Healthcare IT / Clinical Research Technology - Target customers: B2B – Clinical research sites, site networks, and trial sponsors - Mission or purpose statement: To accelerate clinical trials by automating the patient recruitment process, helping life-saving treatments reach patients faster. ## Products & Services - **AI-Powered Patient Recruitment Platform**: An AI-native Patient Relationship Management (PRM) system that automates patient pre-screening, scheduling, engagement, and follow-up across voice, chat, SMS, and email. The platform includes custom-built AI agents, a centralized inbox for all channels, automated CTMS/CRM updates, and a prioritized task list for recruiters. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $3.8M (Seed round, oversubscribed, led by Air Street Capital) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Air Street Capital (lead investor), along with other top AI investors - **Growth Signals**: - Revenue in the "mid six figures" within 3 months of launch, with product usage growing over 300% month-over-month. - Live on 30+ clinical trials across therapeutic areas including heart disease, Alzheimer’s, migraine, epilepsy, and weight management. - Headcount grew 175% year-over-year to 8 employees, with active hiring for multiple roles. - Real customer results: $42,000 labor savings in one month for a leading US site network; 101 patients randomized in one month; 50% of site target enrolled in one week for a growing site network. ## Competitive Advantages - **Domain Expertise**: Founding team combines deep AI/ML research (PhD from ETH Zurich, foundation models at Roche) with clinical experience (medical doctors on staff). - **Proven Traction**: Rapid customer adoption and strong ROI metrics from live deployments. - **Custom AI Agents**: Agents are built custom to each study and "battle tested" by a team of medical doctors and AI engineers, reducing hallucination risk. - **Integration Depth**: Seamlessly syncs with existing CTMS and CRM systems, saving hours of manual data entry. - **Multi-Channel Engagement**: Supports voice, chat, SMS, and email in a single platform, with multilingual capability. ## Strategic Focus - Current priorities: Scaling the platform to handle growing customer demand, expanding the engineering and operations teams, and deepening integrations with clinical trial management systems. - Direction for growth: Becoming the standard AI-native PRM for clinical research sites globally, expanding into new therapeutic areas, and automating more aspects of the patient journey. ## Why Work Here - **Impact**: Directly contribute to accelerating clinical trials and getting life-saving treatments to patients. The company states "80% of all clinical trials are delayed because of patient recruitment." - **Growth Stage**: Early-stage (Series A) with strong product-market fit and explosive growth – employees can have outsized impact. - **Team**: A small, high-caliber team of founders, engineers, and medical doctors from top institutions (ETH Zurich, Roche, NHS, J&J, Medtronic). - **Culture**: Values include trust, openness, honesty, and accountability. Described as a safe place to take risks. - **Remote/Hybrid**: The team is distributed across the US (San Francisco), UK, Argentina, and Switzerland, suggesting a remote-first or highly flexible work environment. - **Notable Perks**: Opportunity to work directly with founders, shape the product from an early stage, and be part of a company that is already generating significant revenue and customer love. ## Sources 1. [delfa.ai](https://www.delfa.ai/) 2. [delfa.ai/careers](https://www.delfa.ai/careers) 3. [linkedin.com/company/delfa-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/delfa-ai) 4. [delfa.ai/product](https://www.delfa.ai/product) 5. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/delfa/__5mD_tGEqYZ31mrD4I6eoOT5CtZOCazyw4wN96hpSeQY) ## Other roles at Delfa AI - [Founding Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-engineer-delfa-ai-london-gtaza0qj91vn) — London, United Kingdom