Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer at Intec Select, London Area, £550-£650 per day

Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer

£550 to £650 per day outside IR 35 | 6-Month Contract – Likely Extension

Hybrid – Stratford, London | 2 Days Onsite per Week

We are partnering with a large global education technology organisation operating across 100+ countries, generating more than £600m in annual revenue and engaging with over 2.5 million users globally.

The organisation is investing heavily in its next generation of AI-native, in-house products and is looking for an experienced Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer to work at the cutting edge of agentic AI.

This is a highly hands-on role, embedding directly with engineering and programme teams to establish how production-grade agentic systems are built, secured, evaluated and operated at enterprise scale.

You will:

• Design and implement production agentic AI systems and coding-agent workflows
• Establish best practices for LLM evaluation, red-teaming and AI guardrails
• Define governance around agent behaviour, oversight, auditability and security
• Address risks including prompt injection, permissions, data boundaries and secrets management
• Build reusable reference implementations for AI-native products and agentic services
• Introduce AI cost monitoring, observability and model-usage controls
• Work closely with engineering, architecture, security and governance teams
• Coach engineering teams and establish long-term internal AI capability

What We're Looking For

You will ideally have experience within a frontier AI company, AI-native technology business or specialist AI consultancy, alongside:

• Proven experience building and operating agentic systems in production
• Strong LLM / GenAI engineering expertise
• Hands-on knowledge of AI security, evaluation and guardrails
• Experience deploying AI within complex enterprise environments
• Strong software engineering and architecture fundamentals
• Excellent stakeholder management and technical coaching skills

This is an opportunity to join a major global organisation at a significant point in its AI journey, helping shape the engineering standards and operating model behind a new generation of in-house agentic AI products.