Forward Deployed AI Engineer

A venture-backed AI start-up is building one of the most compelling enterprise AI platforms currently emerging in Europe.

The product is a full end-to-end platform that allows large enterprises to deploy AI agents quickly, securely and at scale, helping organisations turn AI ambition into real operational value.

Following strong early traction with global enterprise customers and a rapidly expanding commercial pipeline, the business is now scaling its engineering team — creating a rare opportunity to join a company at the point where the product is moving from early adoption to widespread deployment.

This offers the chance to earn out significant equity value at exceptional speed as the business continues to grow.

This is a Forward Deployed Engineering role sitting at the intersection of product engineering and real-world AI deployment. You will work directly with enterprise customers to turn the platform into production-grade AI systems inside their environments, configuring agent workflows, integrating with complex data sources, and solving real operational problems.

Unlike traditional consulting roles, you won’t simply deliver and walk away — the feedback and insight you generate in the field will directly shape the evolution of the core product.

You will effectively operate as the bridge between the product team and the customer, ensuring that deployments move from proof-of-concept to mission-critical systems.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Deploying and configuring agent-based AI pipelines inside enterprise environments
• Building integrations with customer systems, data sources and infrastructure
• Developing custom tooling, connectors and workflows on top of the platform
• Diagnosing and resolving issues across the stack — from infrastructure and authentication through to agent orchestration
• Translating customer feedback into product improvements and new capabilities
• Working closely with the product and engineering teams to accelerate the platform’s evolution

What They’re Looking For

• Strong Python engineering experience working with production systems
• Experience building or deploying AI / ML systems in real environments
• Familiarity with RAG architectures (chunking strategies, embeddings, retrieval, reranking)
• Backend development experience (FastAPI or similar frameworks)
• Comfort working with AWS infrastructure (e.g. ECS, S3, API Gateway, Secrets Manager)
• Engineers who enjoy working directly with customers and solving ambiguous problems
• Strong communication skills and high emotional intelligence

Experience with agentic AI systems or orchestration frameworks would be advantageous, but curiosity and the ability to move quickly in new technical domains are equally valued.

Why This Role Is Different

Most AI roles today involve building prototypes that never make it into real workflows.

This role is about making AI actually work inside major organisations.

You will be:

• Deploying systems that real users rely on daily
• Working directly with enterprise stakeholders solving high-impact operational problems
• Helping shape the product direction of a fast-growing AI company
• Joining early enough that your work can materially influence the company’s trajectory

For ambitious engineers, it’s the type of environment where career progression and financial upside can compress dramatically.

If you’re excited by the idea of taking cutting-edge AI systems from concept to real production environments, this is one of the most interesting opportunities currently emerging in the UK AI ecosystem.