Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) – Agentic AI

David Kennedy Recruitment is partnering with a global technology services and consulting organisation that is seeking to onboard a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer specialising in Agentic AI to join their team in London.

This is a hands-on engineering role combining AI development enterprise software integration and direct customer engagement. You will design build integrate and deploy AI agents and multi-agent systems into production environments taking ownership of technical delivery from initial discovery through to enterprise rollout.

Position: Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Location: London UK

Model: Hybrid

Employment type: Full time

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design and develop production-ready AI agents and multi-agent workflows

• Build AI solutions using platforms such as OpenAI Anthropic Claude Google and Microsoft alongside frameworks such as LangGraph

• Integrate AI agents with enterprise applications APIs databases cloud services and internal business systems

• Implement retrieval pipelines automation workflows and agent orchestration

• Develop evaluation frameworks automated testing monitoring and production safeguards

• Troubleshoot AI model integration deployment and performance issues

• Own technical delivery from discovery and prototyping through production deployment

• Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for reliability security maintainability and scalability

REQUIREMENTS:

• Several years of hands-on software engineering experience using Python TypeScript Java or equivalent programming languages

• Proven experience developing applications using large language models (LLMs) and AI agents

• Hands-on experience with at least one major agentic AI ecosystem such as OpenAI Agents SDK Anthropic Claude Agent SDK Google ADK Microsoft Agent Framework LangGraph or an equivalent framework

• Strong understanding of agent orchestration tool calling retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) prompting and multi-agent workflows

• Experience integrating APIs databases enterprise applications and cloud services

• Strong software architecture debugging testing and integration skills

• Ability to translate complex business requirements into practical technical solutions

OFFER:

• Competitive annual salary

• Hybrid working model based at the clients London office

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge Agentic AI solutions for enterprise customers

• Hands-on involvement in designing building and deploying production-ready AI agents and multi-agent systems

• Opportunity to work with leading AI platforms and technologies including OpenAI Anthropic Google and Microsoft

• Opportunity to take ownership of complex AI projects from initial discovery through to production deployment

• And many more!