Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience building and operating agentic systems in production
• Strong LLM / GenAI engineering expertise
• Hands-on knowledge of AI security, evaluation and guardrails
• Experience deploying AI within complex enterprise environments
• Strong software engineering and architecture fundamentals
• Excellent stakeholder management and technical coaching skills
• Experience within a frontier AI company, AI-native technology business, or specialist AI consultancy

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement production agentic AI systems and coding-agent workflows
• Establish best practices for LLM evaluation, red-teaming, and AI guardrails
• Define governance around agent behaviour, oversight, auditability, and security
• Address risks including prompt injection, permissions, data boundaries, and secrets management
• Build reusable reference implementations for AI-native products and agentic services
• Introduce AI cost monitoring, observability, and model-usage controls
• Work closely with engineering, architecture, security, and governance teams
• Coach engineering teams and establish long-term internal AI capability

Technologies:

• Agentic AI
• AI
• LLM
• Security

More:

We are partnering with a large global education technology organisation operating across 100+ countries, generating more than £600m in annual revenue and engaging with over 2.5 million users globally. We are investing heavily in our next generation of AI-native, in-house products and are looking for an experienced Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer to work at the cutting edge of agentic AI. This is a highly hands-on role based in Stratford, London, with a hybrid arrangement of 2 days onsite per week. It is a 12 month contract offering £550 to £650 per day outside IR35. This is an opportunity to join a major global organisation at a significant point in our AI journey, helping shape the engineering standards and operating model behind a new generation of in-house agentic AI products.

last updated 39 week of 2026