Client-Embedded AI Agent Engineer

HCLTech; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

HCLTech is seeking a hands-on Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with clients and build business transformation agents using Python and leading ADKs.

You will design single-agent and multi-agent systems, drive rapid prototypes, and deliver production-grade solutions with secure, auditable DevSecOps practices. The role emphasizes mentoring a lean team and delivering measurable ROI across enterprise workloads.

Qualifications

• Strong Python engineering with typed, tested and packaged code.
• Hands-on agent building with at least one ADK.
• Solid command of agent engineering including tool/call and MCP integration.
• Experience with eval-driven development and enterprise software practices.

Responsibilities

• Embed with stakeholders and frame business processes as agentic solutions.
• Stand up working agent prototypes quickly.
• Design and ship single-agent and multi-agent systems in Python using ADKs.
• Drive delivery and operational efficiency with measurable ROI.
• Apply prompt engineering, context engineering, and RAG retrieval.
• Connect agents into client ecosystems via secure APIs and authentication.
• Build reusable agent components, tool libraries and templates with guardrails.
• Prototype quickly and harden solutions into production-grade Python.
• Build evaluation harnesses and test suites for safety and correctness.
• Own AgentOps/DevSecOps including CI/CD, telemetry and governance.
• Feed production telemetry and client feedback back into prompts and design.
• Adopt evolving agent frameworks and share field learnings.
• Lead and mentor a lean team of 3 agent engineers.

Skills

Python engineering

Agent development

Prompt engineering

RAG / context engineering

Multi-agent orchestration

DevSecOps

Leadership

Tools

Google ADK

LangGraph

CrewAI

OpenAI Agents SDK

AWS Bedrock AgentCore

Microsoft Agent Framework / Semantic Kernel

Job description

HCLTech is seeking a hands-on Agentic Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with clients and build business transformation agents using Python and leading ADKs.

You will design single-agent and multi-agent systems, drive rapid prototypes, and deliver production-grade solutions with secure, auditable DevSecOps practices. The role emphasizes mentoring a lean team and delivering measurable ROI across enterprise workloads.