Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer

Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer
£550 to £650 per day outside IR 35 | 12 month contract
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
Establish best practices for LLM evaluation, red-teaming and AI guardrails
Define governance around agent behaviour, oversight, auditability and security
Address risks including prompt injection, permissions, data boundaries and secrets management
Build reusable reference implementations for AI-native products and agentic services
Introduce AI cost monitoring, observability and model-usage controls
Work closely with engineering, architecture, security and governance teams
Coach engineering teams and establish long-term internal AI capability 
Essential experience
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
Strong LLM / GenAI engineering expertise
Hands-on knowledge of AI security, evaluation and guardrails
Experience deploying AI within complex enterprise environments
Strong software engineering and architecture fundamentals
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
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed