via Reed · 8 September 2026 ·12 days ago

Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

SR2
London Contract GBP 208,000 – 247,000
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Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

We are looking for a hands-on Forward-Deployed AI Engineer to own the end-to-end delivery of a rapid AI proof of concept within a complex regulated enterprise.

You will take an initial use case and dataset through to a working prototype, demonstrating how regulatory and compliance information can be queried using modern AI, retrieval and agentic technologies.

Key responsibilities

  • Own the technical POC from scope through to demonstration

  • Build front-end and back-end components

  • Design and implement RAG and retrieval capabilities

  • Work with vector databases and/or knowledge graphs

  • Develop agentic workflows and supporting harnesses

  • Build evaluation frameworks and assess LLM/retrieval quality

  • Integrate enterprise datasets

  • Rapidly test, iterate and demonstrate solutions

  • Work closely with architects, data specialists and client technical teams

Experience required
  • Strong hands-on AI/LLM engineering experience

  • RAG and retrieval architectures

  • Agentic AI/workflows

  • Strong software engineering capability across front and back end

  • Azure and Azure OpenAI/OpenAI

  • Experience taking AI prototypes from concept to working solution

  • Comfortable independently owning a technical workstream in an ambiguous discovery environment

Exposure to GraphRAG, Neo4j, Microsoft Graph and LLM evaluation frameworks would be beneficial.

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