Forward Deployed Engineer | AI | Private Debt

Saragossa; Greater London; On-site; GBP 166,000 - 277,000; Full time

Job summary

Saragossa is seeking a senior AI-focused professional to embed AI directly into its private debt business. You’ll align with fund finance, operations and investor relations to identify where AI changes how work gets done and guide use cases from concept to production.

The role requires hands-on AI deployment experience in financial services and domain knowledge of private markets; 12-month contract with a daily rate up to £1,500.

Qualifications

• Background in private debt, fund finance, fund accounting or fund operations.
• Hands-on experience deploying AI/LLM solutions into a financial services environment.
• Knowledge graph agents or other non-deterministic AI systems would be particularly interesting.
• Ability to own a workstream end-to-end and interact with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and embed AI use cases directly with the business.
• Collaborate with teams across fund finance, operations, and investor relations.
• Work alongside a Model Engineer to take ideas from concept to production.

Skills

Private debt experience

Fund finance

Fund accounting

Fund operations

Hands-on AI deployment

Knowledge graph agents

Tools

Knowledge graph agents

Job description

AI experience is important. But for this role, understanding the business comes first. You'd be focussing on embedding AI directly into their private debt business.

You'll work closely with teams across fund finance, operations and investor relations, understanding how they operate and identifying where AI can genuinely change the way work is done.

They need someone who has done this before, ideally combining a background in private debt, fund accounting or fund operations with hands-on experience deploying AI into a financial services environment.

You'll shape use cases directly with the business and work alongside a Model Engineer to take them from idea through to production.

Key experience:

• Private debt, fund finance, fund accounting or fund operations experience.
• Hands-on experience deploying AI/LLM solutions into a business environment.
• Knowledge graph agents or other non-deterministic AI systems would be particularly interesting.
• Comfortable working directly with senior stakeholders and owning a workstream end-to-end.

This isn't a role for a generic AI Engineer. The private markets domain knowledge is just as important as the technical capability.

12-month initial contract, paying up to £1,500/day.