Forward-Deployed AI Engineer: Build Production-Scale AI

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a technically sharp, product-minded engineer to push AI across the business. You’ll work with ambitious teams to turn learnings into durable improvements and ship production-grade AI capabilities that scale across the platform.

You’ll prototype prompts, agents, and workflow designs, synthesize findings for product and platform teams, and build repeatable evaluation methods. Strong collaboration and clear communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience building AI applications, agents, or evaluation systems.
• Ability to reason about model behaviour in complex workflows.
• Production experience with AWS at scale (ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS).
• Fluency prototyping, debugging, evaluation design, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience across the full stack from admin panels to prompting agents.
• Clear communication to technical and non-technical audiences.
• High agency and a strong product sense with durable solutions.
• Bonus: familiarity with complex marketplace businesses; early-stage startup background; AWS Associate (Nice to have).

Responsibilities

• Prototype and iterate on prompts, agents, and workflow designs to understand system behaviour.
• Synthesize findings for Product Engineering and Platform teams into clear artefacts.
• Build repeatable tools, patterns, and evaluation approaches that raise quality across use cases.
• Operate with strong judgment in ambiguous environments balancing short-term fixes with long-term improvements.
• Build relationships across engineering and product communities as a trusted technical partner.

Skills

AI fundamentals

Software engineering

Prototype & evaluation

Cross-functional collaboration

Debugging complex workflows

Product mindset

Communication skills

Fast learning

Tools

AWS ECS

AWS Lambda

DynamoDB

SQS

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a technically sharp, product-minded engineer to push AI across the business. You’ll work with ambitious teams to turn learnings into durable improvements and ship production-grade AI capabilities that scale across the platform.

You’ll prototype prompts, agents, and workflow designs, synthesize findings for product and platform teams, and build repeatable evaluation methods. Strong collaboration and clear communication are essential.