Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Permanent | Hybrid Leeds | AI Engineering + Forward-Deployed Engineering | Salary up to £100,000

The Opportunity

A growing technology consultancy is building an AI-native engineering capability and is looking for a Deployed AI Engineer to help deliver real-world AI solutions for clients.

The role combines AI Engineering, Software Engineering and Forward- Deployed Engineering, with ownership across discovery, architecture, build and production.

Working in a small delivery pod, the engineer will build directly with client data and within their environments, taking ideas from prototype to MVP in weeks. Between engagements, they'll help evolve the company's internal AI platform and turn successful approaches into reusable tools and accelerators.

What you'll be working on:

Building AI solutions using RAG, AI agents, LLM integrations and MCP

Taking solutions from prototype through to production, including security, scalability, guardrails and observability

Building AI evaluation and testing frameworks to measure accuracy and reliability

Working with complex client data, integrations and enterprise environments

Working directly with clients, demoing progress and iterating quickly based on feedback

Developing the internal AI platform and reusable engineering accelerators

Helping upskill client engineering teams and staying on top of emerging AI technologies

What they're looking for:

Strong software engineering fundamentals across clean code, testing, CI/CD and production systems

Strong programming skills in Python, TypeScript or similar, with experience across multiple modern languages

Full-stack capability, including back-end and data engineering

Proven experience building and shipping production LLM/AI applications

Hands-on experience with RAG, AI agents, prompt engineering, tool orchestration and MCP

Experience with AI evaluation, testing, datasets and guardrails

Client-facing experience and an understanding of enterprise security, compliance and legacy environments

High autonomy, strong communication skills and a commercial, outcome-focused mindset

Nice to have:

Vector databases, embeddings or fine-tuning

AWS or G...