London-based Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Foster + Partners; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Personal travel insurance

Wellbeing support

Retail discounts

London campus catering & social events

Job summary

Foster + Partners in London is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to work with architects, designers and business teams to transform workflows into AI tools and agents.

You will lead the full lifecycle of AI solutions from discovery and technical design through deployment, evaluation and handover, combining software engineering with applied AI, design technology and cross-disciplinary collaboration to deliver measurable impact across the practice.

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science, software engineering or equivalent.
• Strong Python and C# programming skills, TypeScript a plus.
• Hands-on with RhinoCommon/Grasshopper SDK and Revit API.
• Experience delivering end-to-end LLM apps with tool calling.
• Experience building retrieval and document-processing pipelines.
• Ability to translate user needs into reliable software solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end AI solution lifecycle from discovery to deployment.
• Work with architects, designers and business teams to translate workflows.
• Develop production-ready AI tools and agents for design workflows.
• Build integrations with design platforms including Revit, Rhino and Grasshopper.
• Evaluate and hand over AI solutions with measurable impact.

Skills

Python

C#

TypeScript

RhinoCommon SDK

Grasshopper SDK

Revit API

LLM applications

Tool calling

Retrieval pipelines

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Degree in computer science or software engineering

Tools

RhinoCommon SDK

Grasshopper SDK

Revit API

Job description

Foster + Partners in London is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to work with architects, designers and business teams to transform workflows into AI tools and agents.

You will lead the full lifecycle of AI solutions from discovery and technical design through deployment, evaluation and handover, combining software engineering with applied AI, design technology and cross-disciplinary collaboration to deliver measurable impact across the practice.