Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer

Lorien; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Lorien is seeking an experienced Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer in London to help build, secure and operate AI-powered products at scale. You’ll collaborate with engineering, architecture, security and governance teams to establish agentic engineering practices and strong AI governance.

The role focuses on developing evaluation frameworks, security controls and cost management, coaching teams, and implementing guardrails for responsible AI deployment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building, securing and operating production agentic systems.
• Strong expertise in LLM evaluation, red-teaming and guardrails.
• Deep understanding of AI security and risk mitigation.
• Experience with enterprise compliance, data protection and procurement.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and coaching skills.
• Experience establishing AI engineering, enablement or platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Establish coding-agent workflows, repository integration and code review practices.
• Coach engineering teams on agent-assisted development.
• Design governance frameworks for agent behaviour, oversight and auditability.
• Review agentic systems for prompt injection, permissions, data boundaries and secrets management.
• Implement LLM evaluation, red-teaming and guardrail frameworks.
• Establish AI cost monitoring, budgeting and reporting.
• Build reusable reference implementations for agentic services and AI-enabled products.
• Upskill UK and international engineering teams and transfer capability to internal owners.

Skills

Agentic systems

LLM evaluation

Red-teaming

AI security

Data protection

Procurement

Stakeholder mgmt

AI governance

Platform capabilities

Job description

Hiring: Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer | London, UK

Contract: 6 months (extension likely)

Location: Hybrid, London | UK-based

Employment: Full-time

We're looking for an experienced Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer to help teams build, secure and operate AI-powered products at scale. You'll work closely with engineering, architecture, security and governance teams to establish agentic engineering practices, AI governance, evaluation frameworks, security controls and cost management.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish coding-agent workflows, repository integration and code review practices
• Coach engineering teams on agent-assisted development
• Design governance frameworks for agent behaviour, oversight and auditability
• Review agentic systems for prompt injection, permissions, data boundaries and secrets management
• Implement LLM evaluation, red-teaming and guardrail frameworks
• Establish AI cost monitoring, budgeting and reporting
• Build reusable reference implementations for agentic services and AI-enabled products
• Upskill UK and international engineering teams and transfer capability to internal owners

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience building, securing and operating production agentic systems
• Strong expertise in LLM evaluation, red-teaming and guardrails
• Deep understanding of AI security and risk mitigation
• Experience with enterprise compliance, data protection and procurement
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and coaching skills
• Experience establishing AI engineering, enablement or platform capabilities

If you have hands-on experience taking agentic AI from experimentation into secure, governed production environments, we'd love to hear from you.