Forward Deployed Engineer -AI Transformation

London (must be comfortable with 5 days on site in Soho)

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

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 to production in weeks, this is the kind of environment where that happens

• 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

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.