Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer
Rate: £600 per day - Outside IR35
Contract: 6-12 months
Working Pattern: Hybrid - 3 days per week on-site
Industry: Public Sector - International Education
We are recruiting a Principal-level Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer to support a major AI-enabled digital transformation programme within a large international organisation.
The organisation is adopting an agentic-first approach to software engineering and wants to move from individual experimentation towards a scalable, secure and maintainable enterprise model for AI-assisted development.
Experienced engineering teams are already exploring agentic development. This role will establish what good looks like across the wider organisation, introducing the engineering standards, governance, security controls, evaluation frameworks, operating models and knowledge-sharing practices required to deploy agentic AI at scale.
This is not a purely strategic or governance-focused role. The successful candidate must remain a credible hands-on engineer who can both define standards and actively help teams implement them.
Key Responsibilities
. Establish engineering standards and best practices for enterprise agentic development
. Define and implement coding-agent workflows, repository integration and appropriate code review practices
. Work hands-on with engineering teams adopting agent-assisted software development
. Develop reusable approaches, patterns and reference implementations for agentic engineering
. Build exemplars of agentic services, AI-enabled product capabilities and coding-agent workflows
. Establish governance frameworks covering agent behaviour, oversight, auditability and organisational controls
. Define appropriate security controls for agentic systems
. Review agentic system designs for security, permissions, data boundaries and operational risk
. Establish appropriate approaches to prompt injection and other AI-specific threats
. Introduce appropriate secrets management and API key protection
. Address risks associated with data leakage, credential exposure and secret exfiltration
. Implement AI evaluation frameworks, red-teaming approaches and appropriate guardrails
. Establish safeguarding contro...
Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer in London employer: Salt
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