Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

SR2Londonreedpublished 09/08/2026
Must-have:AzureFrontendBackendAI

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.