Frontline AI Engineer - Build Real-World Workflows

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in London or Amsterdam, with 3 days in the office. You will work with internal teams and partners to push AI capabilities, building and evaluating AI systems across complex workflows.

The role blends hands-on debugging, prototyping, and presenting results to non-technical stakeholders. You should have strong software engineering fundamentals, experience with AI applications, and production AWS experience.

Qualifications

• Experience building AI applications and evaluating systems.
• Ability to translate SME challenges into concrete technical signals.
• Production AWS experience at scale.

Responsibilities

• Work with internal teams and partners to understand critical workflows and identify high-impact AI opportunities.
• Prototype and iterate on prompts, agents, and workflows to reveal real value.
• Synthesize findings for Product Engineering and Platform teams into reproducible evaluations and artefacts.
• Build repeatable tools and evaluation approaches that raise quality across multiple use cases.
• Operate with good judgment in ambiguous environments while pursuing systemic improvements.
• Build relationships across engineering and product teams as a trusted technical partner.

Skills

AI

Cross-functional collaboration

Software engineering fundamentals

Prototyping

Tools

AWS ECS

AWS Lambda

DynamoDB

SQS

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in London or Amsterdam, with 3 days in the office. You will work with internal teams and partners to push AI capabilities, building and evaluating AI systems across complex workflows.

The role blends hands-on debugging, prototyping, and presenting results to non-technical stakeholders. You should have strong software engineering fundamentals, experience with AI applications, and production AWS experience.