Forward-Deployed AI Engineer — Builder of Real Impact

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Knaphill; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a technically sharp, product-minded engineer to push the frontier of AI across our organisation. You’ll work with ambitious teams and partners to turn AI learnings into durable improvements, shaping how we build and operate complex workflows.

This builder role requires digging into workflows, prototyping prompts and agents, and presenting findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

• Experience building AI applications, agents, or evaluation systems.
• Production experience with AWS at scale (ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS).
• Clear communication across technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Work with internal teams and partners to understand critical workflows and identify high-impact AI improvements.
• Prototype and iterate on prompts, agents, and workflow designs to understand system behaviour.
• Synthesize findings into evaluations, benchmarks and artefacts that improve product and platform quality.
• Build repeatable tools and evaluation approaches that raise the quality bar across multiple use cases.
• Operate with strong judgment in ambiguous environments and balance quick fixes with long-term improvements.

Skills

AI fundamentals

Software engineering

Prototyping & evaluation design

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication to non-technical

Tools

AWS ECS/Lambda/DynamoDB/SQS

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a technically sharp, product-minded engineer to push the frontier of AI across our organisation. You’ll work with ambitious teams and partners to turn AI learnings into durable improvements, shaping how we build and operate complex workflows.

This builder role requires digging into workflows, prototyping prompts and agents, and presenting findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.