At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and implement cutting-edge AI systems while collaborating with engineering teams.
- Company: Join a global education tech leader transforming learning with AI.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, hybrid work model, and a chance to shape AI innovation.
- Other info: Opportunity for career growth in a dynamic, innovative environment.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of AI technology and make a real impact in education.
- Qualifications: Experience in AI systems, strong software engineering skills, and excellent stakeholder management.
The predicted salary is between 81000 - 99000 £ per year.
£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.
Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer employer: Intec Select Ltd
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