Production AI Engineer - Forward Deployed (Client-Facing)

KPMG Ireland; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounted Health Insurance

Additional Annual Leave

Enhanced Family Leave

Emergency Childcare Cover

Social Events

Early Finish Fridays

Relocation Assistance

Learning & Development

Job summary

KPMG Ireland is expanding its Forward Deployed Engineering team in Dublin 2, operating in a hybrid model with potential travel to client sites. The role combines consulting judgment with senior AI engineering skills to deliver production-ready AI solutions inside client systems.

You will embed AI agents and GenAI solutions in client operations, frame problems with stakeholders, and ensure value delivery from discovery workshops to production deployment.

Qualifications

• Client-facing technical role with hands-on delivery.
• AI solutions taken from discovery to production with measurable business impact.
• Experience in regulated sectors (financial services, insurance, public sector).
• Knowledge of AI governance and security, e.g., prompt injection defences and data leakage controls.

Responsibilities

• Frame problems with client stakeholders and find where AI delivers measurable value.
• Run discovery workshops and define scope, success measures and delivery plan.
• Engage senior stakeholders with options, risks and costs; present results at executive level.
• Shape new engagements: proposals, estimates, demonstrations and proofs of concept.
• Design, build and deploy AI agents, RAG solutions and LLM applications to production.
• Integrate AI with client systems via APIs and connectors; MCP servers.
• Implement evaluation, observability, guardrails and cost monitoring from day one.
• Meet security and data protection standards, including the EU AI Act.
• Own solutions after go-live and improve with growing usage.
• Write clear design documents, runbooks and user guides.
• Lead training and adoption to ensure value realization.
• Turn field lessons into reusable accelerators for platform teams.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

C#

LLM applications

Prompt engineering

RAG

Agent frameworks

Azure AI services

Azure Foundry

Azure OpenAI

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Copilot Studio

Anthropic Claude

AWS or GCP

SQL

APIs

CI/CD

Containers

Infrastructure as code

LLMOps

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Computer Science degree or related field

Tools

Microsoft Agent Framework

Semantic Kernel

Claude Agent SDK

LangGraph

Foundry

Azure OpenAI

AI Search

Copilot Studio extensibility

Job description

KPMG Ireland is expanding its Forward Deployed Engineering team in Dublin 2, operating in a hybrid model with potential travel to client sites. The role combines consulting judgment with senior AI engineering skills to deliver production-ready AI solutions inside client systems.

You will embed AI agents and GenAI solutions in client operations, frame problems with stakeholders, and ensure value delivery from discovery workshops to production deployment.