Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Lorien; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Lorien is seeking an experienced Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer to help build, secure and operate AI-powered products at scale from our London hub.

You will work with engineering, security and governance teams to establish agentic engineering practices, AI governance, evaluation frameworks and cost management across production systems.

You’ll establish governance, guardrails and cost monitoring, coach teams, and drive enterprise compliance and procurement for AI systems.

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 agentic workflows and code review practices.
• Coach teams on agent-assisted development.
• Design governance frameworks for agent behaviour and auditability.
• Review systems for prompt injection, permissions, data boundaries and secrets.
• Implement LLM evaluation, red-teaming and guardrails.
• Establish AI cost monitoring, budgeting and reporting.
• Build reusable reference implementations for agentic services.
• Upskill UK and international engineering teams.

Skills

Agentic engineering

LLM evaluation

Security risk mitigation

Stakeholder management

Job description

Hiring: Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer | London, UK

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.

• 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.