AI Deployment Engineer – Field-Ready Production Solutions

IFS; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

IFS is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to bring AI into real business operations. The role sits between engineering, consulting and business change. You will build and run applications for the IFS M&A Group and deliver production AI solutions to acquired companies.

You will work with business and technical stakeholders to understand problems, prototype quickly, connect to existing systems, and deliver scalable implementations that meet security and data governance standards.

Qualifications

• AI/software engineering with data, cloud, and security context.
• Experience shipping at least one production system and measuring impact.
• Experience building an LLM application for real users.
• Experience with API integrations to Salesforce, HubSpot, NetSuite or Databricks.
• Python backend (FastAPI or similar), React/TypeScript, SQL, one cloud (Azure preferred).
• Infrastructure as code and CI/CD, with ability to work independently.
• Clear written and spoken communication with technical and business stakeholders.
• Nice to have: forward-deployed/embedded engineering role.
• Nice to have: RevOps, FP&A or sales operations.
• Nice to have: Agent experience in production (Model Context Protocol).
• Nice to have: Working French or Dutch.

Responsibilities

• Deliver AI projects and workstreams from discovery through design, build, deployment, verification, training and support.
• Priorities and scope agreed with your manager.
• Support discovery with stakeholders to understand workflows and desired outcomes.
• Analyze non-routine requirements and prototype practical solutions.
• Build integrations that connect AI platforms to existing applications and data sources.
• Ship AI features scoped to the user and document sources/models.
• Build agentic systems that automate processes within guardrails.
• Take solutions from prototype to production including monitoring and support.
• Train users and measure results against initial objectives.
• Recommend models and platforms within approved standards.
• Share lessons learned with the team and mentor juniors.
• Report progress and trade-offs to stakeholders and project leads.

Skills

AI engineering

Production deployment

LLM apps

API integrations

Python backend

React/TypeScript

SQL

Cloud (Azure)

CI/CD

Data governance

Tools

Salesforce

HubSpot

NetSuite

Databricks

Azure

FastAPI

Job description

IFS is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to bring AI into real business operations. The role sits between engineering, consulting and business change. You will build and run applications for the IFS M&A Group and deliver production AI solutions to acquired companies.

You will work with business and technical stakeholders to understand problems, prototype quickly, connect to existing systems, and deliver scalable implementations that meet security and data governance standards.