AI Forward-Deployed Engineer: Build & Improve Workflows

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Dartford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a technically sharp, product-minded engineer to push AI across the organisation. You’ll work with internal teams and partners to turn learnings into durable improvements and shape how we build.

This is a builder role focused on real-world workflows and evaluation frameworks. You’ll prototype prompts, agents, and designs to understand system behaviour, synthesize findings, and deliver measurable impact across product and platform.

Qualifications

• Experience building AI applications, agents, or evaluation systems and ability to reason about model behaviour in complex workflows.
• Comfort working with experienced SMEs and translating challenges into technical signals.
• Production experience with AWS at scale (ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS).
• Fluency moving between prototyping, debugging, evaluation design, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Ability to switch between configuring a connector to prompting an agent and contributing code to the platform.
• Clear communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
• High agency and strong product sense with a bias toward durable solutions.
• Familiarity with complex marketplace businesses or similar startup experience is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Prototype and iterate on prompts, agents, and workflow designs to understand system behaviour.
• Synthesize findings for Product Engineering and Platform teams as clear, reproducible evaluations and artefacts.
• Build repeatable tools and evaluation approaches that raise the quality bar across multiple use cases.

Skills

AI applications

Agents

Evaluation systems

AWS at scale

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

ECS

Lambda

DynamoDB

SQS

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a technically sharp, product-minded engineer to push AI across the organisation. You’ll work with internal teams and partners to turn learnings into durable improvements and shape how we build.

This is a builder role focused on real-world workflows and evaluation frameworks. You’ll prototype prompts, agents, and designs to understand system behaviour, synthesize findings, and deliver measurable impact across product and platform.