Alternative Careers for Software Engineers

Work with battery engineers on physics-based modeling, data analysis, and cloud simulations for electric vehicles. This is a working student position that combines domain expertise (battery science) with data analysis and simulation work rather than traditional software development.

Support software development engineers on Battery Management Systems with focus on software quality assurance, testing infrastructure, and tooling. This is a working student role that bridges quality engineering and development support.

Lead a talent acquisition function at a scaling SaaS company, managing recruitment teams and processes while partnering with leadership on hiring strategy and organizational growth. Day-to-day involves team leadership, process optimization, bottleneck diagnosis, and ensuring consistent execution of recruiting operations across multiple regions.

This is a quota-carrying sales development role focused on prospecting and closing deals with high-value accounts in the financial services sector. You'll spend your days reaching out to decision-makers, managing pipelines in CRM tools, and building client relationships to drive revenue growth.

Lead independent research into prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life, designing computational models and experiments to understand how catalysts and reaction networks emerged before modern biochemistry. This is primarily research-driven work requiring scientific rigor rather than software engineering.

As an Account Executive, you'll own the full sales cycle for a B2B SaaS veterinary platform, managing pipeline development, conducting discovery calls with practice owners, and closing deals ranging from £30k-£250k ARR. This is consultative sales focused on understanding customer pain points and matching product solutions.

Build and maintain the SQL data models, dashboards, and reporting infrastructure that power business intelligence across the company. Focus on transforming raw data into reliable datasets and metrics rather than writing application code.

You'll manage relationships with veterinary practice clients, ensuring they maximize platform value, driving renewals and upsells through product knowledge and consultative selling rather than technical implementation.

Triage and resolve customer support tickets via email and chat, develop product expertise, and identify patterns to escalate to Product and Success teams. Acts as a bridge between customers and the product organization.

Online coaching sessions with students to support academic goals, study skills, motivation, and personal development through one-on-one mentoring rather than tutoring specific subjects.

This role involves discovering, evaluating, and managing ambitious social impact projects within TED's Audacious Project initiative. Day-to-day work likely includes identifying visionary leaders and ideas, coordinating with philanthropists and stakeholders, managing project portfolios worth billions in funding, and ensuring projects achieve their systems-change goals.

This role involves coordinating the execution and promotion of sponsored marketing programs (webinars, reports, etc.) across multiple media brands, including managing content calendars, tracking campaign performance, and collaborating across teams to deliver results for partners.

Work with enterprise clients across retail, finance, and government to design and deploy AI solutions that solve real business problems, combining technical expertise with client engagement and delivery responsibilities.

Lead AI/ML projects for pharma and life sciences clients, combining technical problem-solving with client delivery and solution design. Role involves architecting bespoke AI solutions, guiding technical direction, and working cross-functionally with clients and internal teams.

Frontend engineer supporting Faculty's AI consulting practice, likely building client-facing dashboards, data visualization tools, and internal platforms that demonstrate AI solutions to government and enterprise clients. Bridges technical implementation with client delivery and impact storytelling.

A short-term unpaid work placement for military veterans to explore careers in AI and data science at a leading tech company, involving exposure to real client projects across government, finance, and defence sectors.

Enterprise sales leadership role focused on closing compliance software deals with UK retailers and brands. Requires understanding of product compliance regulations and the ability to sell complex B2B SaaS solutions to large enterprises.

Plan and execute large-scale platform migrations (Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 consolidations) across multiple business units, managing technical delivery, cutover activities, and post-migration stabilization using Microsoft migration toolsets.

Set up, operate, and troubleshoot Hawk-Eye sports technology systems on match days at rugby stadiums, ensuring video replay services function correctly during live fixtures. Role involves technical setup, monitoring, and basic troubleshooting of specialized sports tech hardware and software.

Install, configure, and operate Hawk-Eye video replay technology systems at rugby match venues on game days. Work involves hands-on setup, technical troubleshooting, and real-time system management during live sporting events.