London-Based Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

eFinancialCareers; City Of London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Barings seeks a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with Investment, Client and Support teams in London. You will design and ship AI-powered solutions that automate and optimize workflows, using AI-native tooling and connected platforms.

Expect fast prototyping, business validation, and production-grade delivery to measurable business value. You will pair business domain knowledge in asset management with deep software engineering, delivering reusable patterns and responsible AI practices

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to design AI-enabled solutions in production environments.
• Strong analytical skills to translate business problems into technical designs.

Responsibilities

• Understand the business problem first, then leverage AI tools to accelerate solution design, building analytics and modelling solutions grounded in domain expertise.
• Partner with Business stakeholders and architects to design, prototype, and deliver AI-powered solutions spanning automation, workflow orchestration, and client-facing tooling.
• Run tasks end-to-end, from scoping and prototyping through to deployment, using AI-native tooling throughout - not just for coding, but across design, testing, and documentation.
• Write production code that deploys through our pipelines and meets our engineering standards.
• Build custom integrations, workflow automations, and domain-specific solutions on top of Barings AI platform, including connectors to business data sources and document management systems.
• Prototype fast, validate with the business, iterate, and ship.
• Own the technical relationship with the business team throughout each engagement.
• Support the delivery of investment, client & operational workflows, identify high-value AI use cases, and build proofs of concept that demonstrate measurable impact.
• Return from engagements and work with engineering and product to generalise reusable patterns into platform capabilities.
• Participate in architecture discussions alongside core engineering.
• Deliver hands-on training, office hours, demos, and documentation that teach effective and responsible use of AI tooling.
• Build and contribute to AI platform architecture standards, including prompt-engineering patterns, agentic workflow design, and LLM integration guidelines.
• Collaborate with the wider technology and AI Platform teams to specify dependencies (data, environments, tooling).
• Collect, structure, and synthesize user feedback, pain points, and feature requests, translating them into clear requirements and prioritized recommendations.
• Identify patterns across teams to surface high-impact opportunities, quantify potential impact, and highlight use cases with broader applicability across the wider AI organisation.
• Champion responsible AI usage, ensuring deployments adhere to firm policies on data security, model governance, and compliance.
• Demonstrate conformance to all Barings Enterprise Risk Management policies.
• Ensure all development activities are undertaken within the defined control environment.

Skills

AI-native development

LLM integration

REST APIs

Cloud platforms

Microservices

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

AutoGen

Job description

Barings seeks a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with Investment, Client and Support teams in London. You will design and ship AI-powered solutions that automate and optimize workflows, using AI-native tooling and connected platforms.

Expect fast prototyping, business validation, and production-grade delivery to measurable business value. You will pair business domain knowledge in asset management with deep software engineering, delivering reusable patterns and responsible AI practices