Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Location: Hybrid Leeds, United Kingdom, with remote flexibility

Salary: £70,000–£100,000 per annum

Company

hirify.global is a growing technology consultancy building an AI-native engineering capability and delivering AI solutions for clients.

What you will do

• Build AI solutions using RAG, AI agents, LLM integrations and MCP.
• Take solutions from prototype through production, including security, scalability, guardrails and observability.
• Build AI evaluation and testing frameworks to measure accuracy and reliability.
• Work with complex client data, integrations and enterprise environments.
• Collaborate directly with clients, demonstrate progress and iterate based on feedback.
• Develop the internal AI platform, reusable engineering accelerators and client engineering capability.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering fundamentals covering clean code, testing, CI/CD and production systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python, TypeScript or similar, with experience across multiple modern languages.
• Full-stack capability, including backend and data engineering.
• Experience building and shipping production LLM or AI applications.
• Hands-on experience with RAG, AI agents, prompt engineering, tool orchestration, MCP, AI evaluation, datasets and guardrails.
• Client-facing experience and an understanding of enterprise security, compliance and legacy environments, combined with strong autonomy and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with vector databases, embeddings or fine-tuning.
• AWS or Google Cloud experience.
• Startup or founder experience.
• Open-source contributions or AI side projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model with remote flexibility.
• Private healthcare.
• Professional development and funded learning.
• Opportunity to work on modern AI-enabled systems at scale.
• Clear progression within a growing engineering function.