Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Transformation)
London
£130,000-£160,000 + Benefits
We’re working with a founder-led private equity firm undergoing a major AI-driven transformation across its investment and portfolio operations. The business has already embraced LLMs and agentic tooling, and is now moving from experimentation to production-scale deployment with strong executive sponsorship.
They are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit at the centre of this transformation.
The Role
You will work directly with senior stakeholders and investment teams to identify, design, and build AI-enabled workflows that materially improve how the business operates.
This is a hands-on delivery role — not advisory.
You’ll operate across:
- AI use case discovery in live business processes
- Design of LLM/agent-based workflows (Claude / OpenAI ecosystem)
- Rapid prototyping through to production deployment
- Integration into existing enterprise systems (Microsoft stack, investment platforms, CRM tools)
- Governance, security, and compliance alignment (including EU regulatory constraints)
- Capability transfer into internal teams over time
What You’ll Be Doing
- Translating ambiguous business problems into working AI systems
- Building and deploying real-world AI workflows in production environments
- Working closely with executives, operators, and technical teams
- Owning delivery end-to-end in fast-moving, imperfect data environments
- Helping define what “AI operating model” looks like in a modern investment firm
What We’re Looking For
- Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI Engineer, or Solutions Architect
- Strong hands-on software engineering ability (APIs, cloud, data systems)
- Experience building LLM or agent-based applications
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and directly with business users
- Strong stakeholder and communication skills
- Pragmatic builder mindset — delivery over design purity
Why This Role
- High executive sponsorship from founder and leadership team
- Real ownership of AI transformation, not incremental tooling
- Opportunity to shape AI operating model from the ground up
- Strong visibility across a growing international platform
If you’re excited by building real AI systems that move from idea → production in weeks, this is the kind of environment where that happens.
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