Frontline AI Engineer - Deploy & Scale Agentic Systems

WeAreTechWomen; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work with two days at home

Competitive salary

Bonus scheme

Company pension

Private medical & dental care

Wellbeing app

Job summary

Viridien is seeking a hands‑on Forward Deployed AI Engineer to adapt, integrate and operationalise agentic AI systems in production across cloud, on‑prem, hybrid and restricted environments. You will design production architectures for agentic AI, LLM and vision‑language apps.

The role requires strong Python, API development, Docker, cloud deployments, and secure, observable production systems. You will build connectors, CI/CD, monitoring, and ensure reliability, performance and cost efficiency

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science, software engineering, artificial intelligence, engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong Python programming and production software‑engineering skills.
• Experience developing, integrating and operating enterprise software or AI applications.
• Practical understanding of LLMs, agentic AI, tool calling and retrieval‑augmented generation.
• Experience building APIs, services and data pipelines, with Docker and cloud or on‑premises deployments.
• Understanding of authentication, networking, access control and enterprise security.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging and operational support for production systems.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, AI, infrastructure, network and data layers.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement production architectures for agentic AI, LLM and vision‑language applications.
• Adapt agent workflows, models, tools, retrieval systems and configurations for production use.
• Integrate AI systems with enterprise APIs, databases, applications and data platforms.
• Develop reusable connectors, APIs and Model Context Protocol tools.
• Build automated CI/CD, testing, configuration management and deployment workflows.
• Implement authentication, access control, secrets management, security and auditability.
• Establish monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting and evaluation for models, agents and tools.
• Optimise systems for reliability, latency, throughput, scalability and infrastructure cost.
• Troubleshoot production issues and convert deployment experience into reusable platform capabilities.

Skills

Python

Production software eng

LLMs & agentic AI

API design

Data pipelines

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/Eng or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Cloud deployments

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Model Context Protocol

Job description

Viridien is seeking a hands‑on Forward Deployed AI Engineer to adapt, integrate and operationalise agentic AI systems in production across cloud, on‑prem, hybrid and restricted environments. You will design production architectures for agentic AI, LLM and vision‑language apps.

The role requires strong Python, API development, Docker, cloud deployments, and secure, observable production systems. You will build connectors, CI/CD, monitoring, and ensure reliability, performance and cost efficiency