Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer

Hiring: Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer | London, UK
Contract: 6 months (extension likely)
Location: Hybrid, London | UK-based
Employment: Full-time
We're looking for an experienced Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer to help teams build, secure and operate AI-powered products at scale.
You'll work closely with engineering, architecture, security and governance teams to establish agentic engineering practices, AI governance, evaluation frameworks, security controls and cost management.

Key Responsibilities

. Establish coding-agent workflows, repository integration and code review practices
. Coach engineering teams on agent-assisted development
. Design governance frameworks for agent behaviour, oversight and auditability
. Review agentic systems for prompt injection, permissions, data boundaries and secrets management
. Implement LLM evaluation, red-teaming and guardrail frameworks
. Establish AI cost monitoring, budgeting and reporting
. Build reusable reference implementations for agentic services and AI-enabled products
. Upskill UK and international engineering teams and transfer capability to internal owners

What We're Looking For

. Proven experience building, securing and operating production agentic systems
. Strong expertise in LLM evaluation, red-teaming and guardrails
. Deep understanding of AI security and risk mitigation
. Experience with enterprise compliance, data protection and procurement
. Strong stakeholder management, communication and coaching skills
. Experience establishing AI engineering, enablement or platform capabilities
If you have hands-on experience taking agentic AI from experimentation into secure, governed production environments, we'd love to hear from you.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.