Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £160,000 - 200,000 per year
Requirements:- Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development using Python or similar coding languages.
- Experience taking production-grade AI-driven solutions from conception to launch and architecting AI systems on cloud platforms such as GCP.
- Experience building pipelines for structured and unstructured data using both vector databases and RAG-like architectures to power enterprise AI solutions.
- Experience leading technical discovery sessions with customers.
- Preferred: Masters degree or PhD in AI, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Preferred: Experience implementing multi-agent systems using frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, or ADK and complex patterns such as ReAct, self-reflection, and hierarchical delegation.
- Preferred: Experience in a post-sales or technical consulting delivery function.
- Preferred: Knowledge of LLM-native metrics such as tokens/sec and cost-per-request, and techniques for optimizing state management and granular tracing.
- Preferred: Ability to communicate fluently in French, German, Spanish, Italian, or another European language to support client relationship management in this region.
- Preferred: Ability to travel regionally to engage with local stakeholders and customers.
- Serve as a developer for complex AI applications, moving rapid prototypes into production-grade agentic workflows that drive measurable ROI.
- Architect and code the connective tissue between our AI products and customer live infrastructure, including APIs, legacy data silos, and security perimeters.
- Build high-performance evaluation pipelines and observability frameworks to ensure our agentic systems meet requirements for accuracy, safety, and latency.
- Identify repeatable field patterns and friction points in our AI stack, converting them into reusable modules or formal product feature requests for our Engineering teams.
- Co-build with pre-sales and product teams to instill Google-grade development best practices and ensure long-term project success and high end-user adoption.
- Act as an embedded builder within customer environments, coding, debugging, and jointly shipping bespoke agentic solutions.
- Solve integration complexities, data readiness issues, and state-management issues that prevent AI from reaching enterprise-grade maturity.
- Provide white-glove deployment of complex AI systems while serving as a feedback loop to influence our future product roadmap.
- AI
- Architect
- Cloud
- Embedded
- GCP
- Support
- LLM
- Python
- RAG
- React
- Security
- DevOps
- Excel
- MCP
More:
We are part of Google Cloud Consultings Go-To-Market team, helping businesses worldwide lead the AI revolution. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will work with frontier Gemini models, the Vertex AI platform, and deep engineering and research expertise from DeepMind to solve customer challenges. This is a highly collaborative, high-agency role for engineers with a founders mindset, focused on embedding with customers, shipping production-grade AI solutions, and turning real-world field insights into our future product roadmap.
last updated 34 week of 2026
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