Front-Office AI Enablement Engineer

Selby Jennings; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings seeks an Applied AI Enablement Engineer in London to embed practical AI capabilities across our client’s investment teams. You will collaborate with data scientists, analysts and engineers, working directly with portfolio managers, researchers and senior stakeholders.

This front-office role requires translating complex problems into usable AI solutions, developing proofs of concept, and driving adoption through workshops and hands-on support.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a client-facing product, solutions engineering, consulting or forward-deployed role.
• Experience translating non-technical requirements into AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with investment teams to understand research workflows, uncover problems and identify high-value opportunities for AI.
• Act as the bridge between business users and technical teams, translating loosely defined requirements into practical solution and platform designs.
• Develop lightweight proofs of concept to test feasibility and demonstrate value before larger build decisions are made.
• Drive adoption through workshops, prompt and tool education, best-practice sharing and hands‑on support for users.
• Assess the effectiveness of AI solutions, communicate limitations clearly and feed user insights back into the wider technology roadmap.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data Platforms

Solution Architecture

LLM tooling

APIs

RAG

Agents

Evaluation

Tools

Python

SQL

APIs

Job description

Selby Jennings seeks an Applied AI Enablement Engineer in London to embed practical AI capabilities across our client’s investment teams. You will collaborate with data scientists, analysts and engineers, working directly with portfolio managers, researchers and senior stakeholders.

This front-office role requires translating complex problems into usable AI solutions, developing proofs of concept, and driving adoption through workshops and hands-on support.