Forward Deployed AI Engineer
London - Remote first (1 day per week/fortnight in office) | Travel to London Client Sites as Required | £70,000+ (Flexible DOE) + Equity + Bonus
Gravitas is partnering with an innovative AI software company to hire a Forward Deployed AI Engineer.
This is an opportunity to join one of the UK's most exciting AI scale-ups, building agentic AI systems that are transforming operations within highly regulated industries. Working with enterprise customers and leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies, you'll play a key role in taking complex business challenges and turning them into production-ready solutions that deliver measurable impact.
This role sits at the intersection of customers, product and machine learning. You'll work directly with senior stakeholders, design and deploy AI systems into customer environments, and own technical outcomes from discovery through to production.
The Role
As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you'll be responsible for delivering AI solutions that solve real-world business problems. You'll work closely with customers, helping define requirements, architect solutions, deploy systems and continuously improve performance through robust evaluation frameworks.
This is not a traditional consulting role and it isn't a pure research position. You'll be hands-on, writing production code, making key technical decisions, and acting as the trusted technical advisor throughout the customer journey.
Responsibilities
- Partner with C-suite executives, senior stakeholders and technical teams to scope AI initiatives and define project requirements.
- Design, build, evaluate and deploy agentic AI systems into production environments.
- Develop intelligent workflows for document generation, compliance monitoring, business process automation and decision support.
- Deploy solutions within customer Azure environments using services such as Entra ID, Key Vault, Azure AI Foundry and private networking.
- Establish evaluation frameworks, testing methodologies and performance metrics to measure AI effectiveness.
- Build reusable Python components and frameworks that can be leveraged across multiple deployments.
- Provide technical leadership throughout implementation and customer adoption.
- Drive best practices around AI engineering, evaluation, guardrails and production operations.
Requirements
- Strong Python development experience with production systems, backend services and data pipelines.
- Hands-on machine learning engineering experience, including training, evaluating and deploying models.
- Strong cloud infrastructure experience, ideally Azure (AWS/GCP backgrounds also considered).
- Experience translating ambiguous business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Deep understanding of modern AI and agentic architecture patterns, including tool use, retrieval, evaluations and guardrails.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Customer-facing experience is highly desirable.
- Experience within financial services, fintech or another regulated industry is a plus.
Tech Stack
- Python (FastAPI, Pydantic, Async Frameworks)
- Microsoft Azure (AI Foundry, App Services, Functions, Key Vault, Entra ID, Private VNets)
- PostgreSQL
- OpenAI & Anthropic Models
- Agentic AI Evaluation Frameworks
- Microsoft Graph
- CRM Integrations including Dynamics 365, Salesforce and other enterprise platforms
What's on Offer?
- £70,000+ base salary (flexible for highly experienced candidates)
- Meaningful equity package.
- Remote first working (1 day per week/fortnight in London with travel to London and client sites when required)
- High-trust, high-ownership environment.
- Direct exposure to enterprise customers and senior leadership teams.
- Opportunity to work on some of the most advanced real-world agentic AI deployments in the UK.
- Access to an extensive network of AI and technology partners, including Microsoft and NVIDIA.
- Join a rapidly growing business at a pivotal stage of its journey.
If you're passionate about building production-grade AI systems and want to be at the forefront of enterprise AI adoption, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now or contact Gravitas for a confidential discussion.