Staff AI Engineer: Forward-Deployed & Builder

Just Eat Holding; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway seeks a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to push AI across the organisation. Based in London with three days in office weekly, you will work with internal teams and partners to transform complex workflows into durable AI improvements.

You’ll prototype prompts and design evaluation frameworks that translate insights into real product and platform enhancements. You will balance hands-on debugging with strategic design, collaborating across engineering and product teams, and

Qualifications

• Experience building AI applications, agents, or evaluation systems.
• Production experience with AWS at scale (ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS).
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with a product mindset.
• Ability to translate SME challenges into technical signals and concrete artifacts.

Responsibilities

• Work with internal teams and partners to understand critical workflows and identify AI improvement opportunities.
• Prototype and iterate on prompts, agents, and workflow designs to reveal system behaviour and value.
• Synthesize findings for Product Engineering and Platform teams into clear evaluations and artefacts.
• Build repeatable tools and evaluation approaches to raise quality across use cases.
• Operate with judgment in ambiguous environments, balancing quick fixes with long-term improvements.
• Build relationships across engineering and product communities as a trusted technical partner.

Skills

AI fundamentals

AWS at scale

ECS

Lambda

DynamoDB

SQS

Production systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway seeks a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to push AI across the organisation. Based in London with three days in office weekly, you will work with internal teams and partners to transform complex workflows into durable AI improvements.

You’ll prototype prompts and design evaluation frameworks that translate insights into real product and platform enhancements. You will balance hands-on debugging with strategic design, collaborating across engineering and product teams, and