Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Location: London, UK; hybrid working with 2 days per week from the London office

Company

hirify.global is a Growth Invention company operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, delivering brand, media, experience, commerce, CRM, and technology and data services for global brands.

What you will do

• Convert Future of the Customer Journey methodology into working agentic components, prototypes, and internal tools.
• Work with growth and strategy teams to understand client and market problems and deliver rapid working solutions.
• Support global client projects on a partially billable basis, implementing the firm-wide strategy consistently across markets.
• Collaborate with product and craft teams to document integration paths, maintain platform compatibility, and hand over validated components.
• Evaluate and integrate new AI products with technology partners while maintaining an AI-native toolchain and sharing effective approaches across markets.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience prototyping and shipping software in a modern backend language such as Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar.
• Ability to use AI tooling to create prototype frontends and APIs quickly.
• Experience building applications with mainstream LLM families including Gemini, GPT, and Claude.
• Experience connecting models to enterprise data and tools using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and skills-based agent systems.
• Proficiency with APIs, authentication, data exchange, and cross-platform integrations.
• Experience developing agentic systems with LangChain, LangGraph, or an equivalent orchestration framework.
• AI-native working practices, using AI tooling as the default across coding, research, and delivery and adapting to tools used across different markets.

Nice to have

• Experience in forward-deployed, customer engineering, solutions engineering, or applied AI roles within an agency, consultancy, or AI company.
• Experience presenting working software to non-technical stakeholders and iterating live based on feedback.
• Knowledge of OpenAPI and Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Knowledge of paid media, social platforms, user behaviour, agentic commerce, or generative engine optimisation.
• Experience with evaluation, tracing, and observability for LLM applications.
• Evidence of rapidly adopting new AI products through hands-on learning.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid working policy with 2 office days per week in London.
• Salary based on experience, equal pay policies, pension, private healthcare, mental health support, and company sick pay.
• 26 days of paid holiday plus UK Bank Holidays, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, and enhanced family-friendly policies.
• Learning and development opportunities, training, certifications, inspirational talks, and a buddy programme.
• Inclusive culture focused on collaboration, curiosity, fast execution, and meaningful impact, with social and cultural events.
• Opportunities to work with clients of different sizes and industries and participate in global hirify.global Cares Month.