UK Founding Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

Stott and May; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Stott and May is recruiting the Lead Forward Deployed AI Engineer for the UK founding team. You’ll be the first local member of a high-performing global group, shaping the engineering presence from the ground up and driving deployment of production-grade GenAI systems for enterprise customers.

The role blends hands-on engineering with customer-facing collaboration, owning end-to-end AI workflows and ensuring measurable business value.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software/AI engineering experience (Python preferred).
• Strong foundation in system design, debugging, testing, and performance optimization.
• Proven experience building AI-driven applications, not just APIs, with prompts, models, agents, and evaluation mechanisms.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement compound AI workflows that combine models, retrieval, evaluation, and execution into cohesive production systems.
• Operate on live AI deployments: monitor behaviour, identify failure modes, and iterate to improve performance and reliability.
• Integrate systems into real customer environments; from data platforms and APIs to business applications.
• Collaborate with enterprise teams, explaining technical trade-offs and outcomes clearly.
• Take ownership of real-world outcomes, ensuring AI systems deliver measurable business value and adapt as client needs evolve.

Skills

Python

System design

Debugging

Testing

Performance tuning

AI-driven apps

Customer-facing

Job description

Stott and May is recruiting the Lead Forward Deployed AI Engineer for the UK founding team. You’ll be the first local member of a high-performing global group, shaping the engineering presence from the ground up and driving deployment of production-grade GenAI systems for enterprise customers.

The role blends hands-on engineering with customer-facing collaboration, owning end-to-end AI workflows and ensuring measurable business value.