Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) – Agentic AI
David Kennedy Recruitment · London, United Kingdom · hybrid
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. 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.
Position: 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
- Build 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 Python, TypeScript, Java or equivalent programming languages
- 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
- 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
- Hybrid working model based at the client´s London office
- 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
- And many more!