Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer

Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer<br />£550 to £650 per day outside IR 35 | 12 month contract<br />Hybrid – Stratford, London | 2 Days Onsite per Week 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.

The organisation is investing heavily in its next generation of AI-native, in-house products and is looking for an experienced Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer to work at the cutting edge of agentic AI.

This is a highly hands-on role, embedding directly with engineering and programme teams to establish how production-grade agentic systems are built, secured, evaluated and operated at enterprise scale. You will:

Design and implement production agentic AI systems and coding-agent workflows<br />Establish best practices for LLM evaluation, red-teaming and AI guardrails<br />Define governance around agent behaviour, oversight, auditability and security<br />Address risks including prompt injection, permissions, data boundaries and secrets management<br />Build reusable reference implementations for AI-native products and agentic services<br />Introduce AI cost monitoring, observability and model-usage controls<br />Work closely with engineering, architecture, security and governance teams<br />Coach engineering teams and establish long-term internal AI capability Essential experience<br />You will ideally have experience within a frontier AI company, AI-native technology business or specialist AI consultancy, alongside:

Proven experience building and operating agentic systems in production<br />Strong LLM / GenAI engineering expertise<br />Hands-on knowledge of AI security, evaluation and guardrails<br />Experience deploying AI within complex enterprise environments<br />Strong software engineering and architecture fundamentals<br />Excellent stakeholder management and technical coaching skills This is an opportunity to join a major global organisation at a significant point in its AI journey, helping shape the engineering standards and operating model behind a new generation of in-house agentic AI products