Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) – Agentic AI

David Kennedy Recruitment is partnering with a global technology services and consulting organisation, that is seeking to onboard a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer specialising in Agentic AI to join their team in London. This is a hands-on engineering role combining AI development, enterprise software integration and direct customer engagement.

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Responsibilities

• You will design, build, integrate and deploy AI agents and multi-agent systems into production environments, taking ownership of technical delivery from initial discovery through to enterprise rollout.
• Senior Forward Deployed Engineer Location: London, UK Model: Hybrid Employment type: Full time DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Design and develop production-ready AI agents and multi-agent workflows
• AI solutions using platforms such as OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google and Microsoft, alongside frameworks such as LangGraph Integrate AI agents with enterprise applications, APIs, databases, cloud services and internal business systems
• Implement retrieval pipelines, automation workflows and agent orchestration
• Develop evaluation frameworks, automated testing, monitoring and production safeguards

Troubleshoot AI model, integration, deployment and performance issues

• Own technical delivery from discovery and prototyping through production deployment
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for reliability, security, maintainability and scalability REQUIREMENTS: Several years of hands-on software engineering experience using
• Proven experience developing applications using large language models (LLMs) and AI agents Hands-on experience with at least one major agentic AI ecosystem, such as OpenAI Agents SDK, Anthropic Claude Agent SDK, Google ADK, Microsoft Agent Framework, LangGraph or an equivalent framework
• Strong understanding of agent orchestration, tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompting and multi-agent workflows

Requirements

Python, TypeScript, Java or equivalent programming languages

• Experience integrating APIs, databases, enterprise applications and cloud services
• Strong software architecture, debugging, testing and integration skills
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into practical technical solutions OFFER: Competitive annual salary

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge Agentic AI solutions for enterprise customers Hands-on involvement in designing, building and deploying production-ready AI agents and multi-agent systems
• Opportunity to work with leading AI platforms and technologies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft Opportunity to take ownership of complex AI projects from initial discovery through to production deployment

Hybrid working model based at the client´s London office