Frontline AI Solutions Architect

hedgehog lab; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Hedgehog Lab in the UK is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead early client engagements, shaping architecture and technology choices before delivery teams form. You’ll own technical direction and work closely with customer teams to prove concepts that scale.

You’ll operate in a flexible, hybrid model with travel to client sites as needed, ideally based within 50 miles of our Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester or London offices.

Qualifications

• Real experience using AI agents to build production software.
• The ability to break down a complicated, poorly defined problem and ship something that works
• Strong TypeScript or Python, comfortable across the full stack, with frameworks such as NestJS or FastAPI
• Experience meeting and presenting to clients directly
• Strong written communication, especially for ADRs and docs
• Experience in consulting, professional services or a forward-deployed role
• A pragmatic take on architecture, sized to POC, pilot or production

Responsibilities

• Turn customer goals into a solution architecture and technology choices
• Build proofs of concept that validate your design and hand off cleanly
• Define the agentic engineering pipeline: tooling, workflows and guardrails for AI coding agents
• Shape the quality strategy, including test approach and code review
• Make other engineers more capable, pairing on real work and leaving patterns client teams can own
• Own the architectural decision records

Skills

AI agents

Client communication

TypeScript/Python

Architecture pragmatism

Consulting experience

Tools

NestJS

FastAPI

Job description

Hedgehog Lab in the UK is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead early client engagements, shaping architecture and technology choices before delivery teams form. You’ll own technical direction and work closely with customer teams to prove concepts that scale.

You’ll operate in a flexible, hybrid model with travel to client sites as needed, ideally based within 50 miles of our Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester or London offices.