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# Forward Deployed AI Engineer

- **Company:** IFS
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** £60,938.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Software as a Service, Middleware, Python (Programming Language), Oracle (Applications), OpenAI, Tensorflow, Salesforce.Com, SAP (Applications), Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Pinecone, Enterprise Software Applications, LangChain, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, AI Platforms, HuggingFace, Weaviate, Virtual Agents, Servicenow
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5918843975

## About the Role

What We're Looking For

 * 2-5 years of experience in a software engineering, solutions engineering, or ML deployment role

 * Proficiency in Python and working knowledge of AI/ML frameworks (e.g. OpenAI, Hugging Face, LangChain, Pinecone, Weaviate, etc.)

 * Familiarity with building LLM applications, RAG systems, or conversational AI workflows

 * Experience integrating with enterprise systems via APIs or middleware (e.g. Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP, Oracle)

 * Ability to translate business problems into technical solutions-and deliver them fast

 * Strong interpersonal skills; you're just as comfortable on a whiteboard with a customer as you are in code

 * Bias toward action, ownership, and continuous learning in dynamic environments

Nice to Have

 * Background in SaaS, customer experience, support operations, or manufacturing systems

 * Experience deploying AI in mission-critical environments

 * Prior work with enterprise AI platforms or multi-agent orchestration

## Description

As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you'll work directly with enterprise customers to deliver custom, production-ready AI solutions that solve real-world problems. You'll lead the design and deployment of intelligent agents across customer workflows-owning everything from discovery and prototyping to configuration, testing, and launch.

This is a fast-paced, hands-on role that combines engineering, customer collaboration, and applied AI. You will serve as a critical link between our product and the customer's needs-ensuring rapid value delivery and laying the foundation for long-term success.

What You'll Do

 * Partner with enterprise customers to scope and implement AI Agent use cases across complex workflows

 * Integrate IFS Loops platform with customer systems

 * Tune agent behavior and logic to deliver measurable outcomes (e.g., lower costs, increase in efficiency, fewer errors)

 * Troubleshoot deployments and iterate quickly to ensure performance, accuracy, and user adoption

 * Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to feed customer insights into the roadmap

 * Document technical decisions and hand off stable deployments to customer engineering or support teams