Artificial Intelligence Engineer
22 days ago
Liverpool
🚀 Forward Deployed Engineer – Agentic AI 🚀 💥 Global Consulting Firm Pioneering Agentic AI 💥 📍 Liverpool | Hybrid: 2-3 days on-site + client travel 💸 £90k – £150k (level dependent) + bonus + sign-on This is not a theoretical or demo-driven AI role. We’re hiring engineers who design, deploy, and scale agentic AI systems in production. You’ll partner directly with enterprise and public-sector clients, taking initiatives from early proof-of-concept through to mission-critical platforms used by hundreds or thousands of users. If you enjoy operating at the intersection of deep engineering, real-world delivery, and client impact, this role was built for you. What You’ll Be Responsible For • Architect agentic AI systems – Design and own full agent lifecycles (plan → act → reflect), orchestration layers (DAGs, state machines), and memory strategies., • Build production-grade tooling – Implement schemas, safety controls, retries, rate limiting, and extensible SDKs., • Develop memory & retrieval services – Create episodic and semantic memory pipelines, RAG APIs, deduplication, and summarisation agents., • Deploy at scale – Productionise systems using Kubernetes, serverless, GPU infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and auto-scaling., • Ensure reliability & governance – Apply guardrails, cost/latency controls, checkpointing, and critic/reviewer patterns., • Evaluate and monitor – Build automated evaluation frameworks, golden datasets, retriever testing, and drift detection., • Work with clients – Lead technical workshops, delivery roadmaps, and AI maturity assessments, translating complexity into outcomes. What We’re Looking For Essential Experience • Hands-on experience shipping LLM or agentic AI systems into production., • Strong software engineering fundamentals across orchestration, deployment, monitoring, and reliability., • Experience with agentic architectures (e.g. LangGraph, ReAct, CoT loops) or building custom frameworks from first principles., • Degree in Computer Science, AI, or related discipline., • Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow, vector databases, RAG pipelines, and orchestration platforms., • Comfortable operating in client-facing delivery environments. Nice to Have • Background in consulting, scale-ups, or high-ownership start-up environments., • Exposure to regulated or high-stakes industries., • Self-directed, entrepreneurial mindset with a bias toward execution. Why Join This Team? • Real Impact – Deliver production-ready agentic AI systems solving real operational problems., • Technical Depth – Work beyond “glue code” on orchestration, deployment, and system reliability., • Global Exposure – Hybrid role with international client and team collaboration., • Career Acceleration – Influence how enterprises adopt and scale agentic AI., • Culture – Fast-moving, delivery-focused, and genuinely at the frontier of applied AI. Keywords (SEO): Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic AI Engineer, Multi-Agent Systems, LLM Production, AI Orchestration, LangGraph, LangChain, RAG, AI Deployment, AI Consultant, Applied AI, AI Architecture, Enterprise AI, Autonomous Systems, AI Engineering Jobs, AI Careers UK