Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer

Intec Select Ltd; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 101,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Intec Select Ltd is partnering with a global education technology organisation to hire an Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer. The role focuses on building production-grade agentic AI systems, establishing guardrails, and defining governance for enterprise-scale deployments.

The position is a 12-month contract with hybrid working arrangement (Stratford, London) and a day-rate of £550–£650 outside IR35. You will work closely with engineering, security and governance teams to mature AI capabilities

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Agentic AI engineering

LLM / GenAI

AI security

Enterprise deployment

Software engineering

Stakeholder management

Technical coaching

Job description

Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer £550 to £650 per day outside IR 35 | 12 month contract 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

Essential experience

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