Field AI Engineer: Deploy and Scale Agentic AI

CGG; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Hybrid working

Company pension

Unmind wellbeing app

Discount platform (gym, restaurants,影院

Cycle purchase scheme

Private Medical & Dental care

Holiday buy/sell program

Job summary

Viridien is expanding its ability to deploy secure, scalable agentic AI solutions across cloud, on‑premises, hybrid and restricted environments. We are seeking a hands‑on Forward Deployed AI Engineer to adapt, integrate and operationalise agentic AI systems in production.

The role focuses on designing production architectures for agentic AI, integrating tools and APIs, and building CI/CD, security and observability into scalable platforms.

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science, software engineering, artificial intelligence, engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong Python programming and production software‑engineering skills.
• Experience developing, integrating and operating enterprise software or AI applications.
• Practical understanding of LLMs, agentic AI, tool calling and retrieval‑augmented generation.
• Experience building APIs, services and data pipelines, with Docker and cloud or on‑premises deployments.
• Understanding of authentication, networking, access control and enterprise security.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging and operational support for production systems.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, AI, infrastructure, network and data layers.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement production architectures for agentic AI, LLM and vision‑language applications.
• Adapt agent workflows, models, tools, retrieval systems and configurations for production use.
• Integrate AI systems with enterprise APIs, databases, applications and data platforms.
• Develop reusable connectors, APIs and Model Context Protocol tools.
• Build automated CI/CD, testing, configuration management and deployment workflows.
• Implement authentication, access control, secrets management, security and auditability.
• Establish monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting and evaluation for models, agents and tools.
• Optimise systems for reliability, latency, throughput, scalability and infrastructure cost.
• Troubleshoot production issues and convert deployment experience into reusable platform capabilities.

Job description

Viridien is expanding its ability to deploy secure, scalable agentic AI solutions across cloud, on‑premises, hybrid and restricted environments. We are seeking a hands‑on Forward Deployed AI Engineer to adapt, integrate and operationalise agentic AI systems in production.

The role focuses on designing production architectures for agentic AI, integrating tools and APIs, and building CI/CD, security and observability into scalable platforms.