Forward Deployed Engineering Manager

Job description

About Us Lyrebird Health is transforming the quality and accessibility of healthcare by automating clinicians' most time-consuming tasks. Thousands of clinicians across multiple disciplines use Lyrebird every day in environments where accuracy, safety, and time matter deeply. Everything we build is grounded in earning trust, reducing cognitive load, and delivering meaningful impact at scale. The Role: Lyrebird is growing fast across the NHS, and we need someone to own the technical reality of that growth. As our Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, you will be accountable for how our product gets deployed, integrated, and run in production across UK healthcare organisations. You will lead a distributed team of Forward Deployed Engineers, hold the technical bar across all UK deployments, and be the person who ensures what gets sold actually shipped; safely, reliably, and in a way that makes the platform stronger. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, delivery, and customer engagement, and covers a growing pipeline of NHS trusts. This role suits an Engineering Leader who has moved into leadership without leaving the technical work behind. You are someone who reads code...