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Join our team and help move the planet towards sustainability. For more information, please visit https://univers.com\nJob Overview: Forward Deployed Engineer\nAre you looking to use AI and modern technology to solve real-world problems and transform how organisations operate?\nUnivers is accelerating the next generation of AI and intelligent IoT innovation, helping businesses, industries, critical infrastructure operators, and other organisations transform operations, optimize resources, improve resilience, and make better decisions at scale.\nOur mission is to translate advances in AI into real-world systems that improve operational performance, energy efficiency, sustainability, and productivity. We focus on applied intelligence, where AI models, agents, data, and operational systems come together in real workflows and continuously improve through feedback.\nAI is moving from promise to accountability. 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