Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Salary: £53,000 - 93,000 per year

Requirements:

• We require a degree in computer science, software engineering, artificial intelligence, engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• We require strong Python programming and production software-engineering skills.
• We require experience developing, integrating and operating enterprise software or AI applications.
• We require practical understanding of LLMs, agentic AI, tool calling and retrieval-augmented generation.
• We require experience building APIs, services and data pipelines, with Docker and cloud or on-premises deployments.
• We require understanding of authentication, networking, access control and enterprise security.
• We require experience implementing monitoring, logging and operational support for production systems.
• We require strong troubleshooting skills across application, AI, infrastructure, network and data layers.
• Desirable: experience deploying agentic or generative AI applications in production.
• Desirable: experience building and operating large-scale, distributed AI systems involving multiple agents, models, tools and services.
• Desirable: experience with Azure, AWS or Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform and CI/CD technologies.
• Desirable: experience with LangGraph, AutoGen, smolagents or similar frameworks.
• Desirable: experience with Model Context Protocol, model-serving platforms, vector databases and LLM gateways.
• Desirable: experience implementing AI evaluation, observability, tracing and performance monitoring.
• Desirable: experience with high availability, autoscaling, load testing, incident management or restricted environments.
• Desirable: experience applying AI to scientific, engineering, energy or geoscience workflows.

Responsibilities:

• We design and implement production architectures for agentic AI, LLM and vision-language applications.
• We adapt agent workflows, models, tools, retrieval systems and configurations for production use.
• We integrate AI systems with enterprise APIs, databases, applications and data platforms.
• We develop reusable connectors, APIs and Model Context Protocol tools.
• We build automated CI/CD, testing, configuration management and deployment workflows.
• We implement authentication, access control, secrets management, security and auditability.
• We establish monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting and evaluation for models, agents and tools.
• We optimise systems for reliability, latency, throughput, scalability and infrastructure cost.
• We troubleshoot production issues and convert deployment experience into reusable platform capabilities.

Technologies:

• Agentic AI
• AI
• AWS
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Docker
• Helm
• Incident Management
• Support
• Kubernetes
• LLM
• Network
• Python
• Security
• Terraform
• Machine Learning

More:

Viridien is an advanced technology, digital and Earth data company focused on pushing the boundaries of science for a more prosperous and sustainable future. We are expanding our ability to deploy secure, scalable and reliable agentic AI solutions across complex scientific and enterprise environments, and we are looking for a hands-on Forward Deployed AI Engineer to help adapt, integrate and operationalise agentic AI systems in production across cloud, on-premises, hybrid and restricted environments. We offer a competitive salary, a highly attractive bonus scheme, 22 days of annual leave with future increases, hybrid working with two days at home, a company pension with generous employer contribution, wellbeing support through Unmind, flexible benefits and discount schemes, cycle purchase, flexible private medical and dental care, holiday swap and buy/sell programmes, a relaxed dress code, and tailored learning and development through our Learning Hub. We foster a culture of continuous learning, community involvement and environmental responsibility, and we are committed to a respectful, inclusive and transparent hiring process. The role is based in Crawley, United Kingdom, and is full time.

last updated 40 week of 2026