AI Forward Deployed Engineer - IR35

Inside IR3

We're partnering with a leading private markets investment firm that is making significant investment into enterprise AI and looking to hire an AI Forward Deployed Engineer to help build and scale its next-generation AI platform.

This is a unique role sitting at the intersection of software engineering, AI platform development, and business-facing delivery. You'll work directly with investment and finance teams to identify high-value use cases while also helping build the governed AI infrastructure that enables AI adoption across the firm.

• Strong software engineering background with experience building and deploying production applications
• Excellent Python development skills (Type Script experience also beneficial)
• Commercial experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications in production
• Experience with agentic workflows, AI copilots, RAG systems, and tool‑calling architectures
• Hands‑on experience with frameworks such as MCP, Lang Chain, Lang Graph, Pydantic AI, or similar orchestration tools
• Experience integrating LLMs via APIs from providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic
• Knowledge of LLM observability, evaluation, tracing, and monitoring tools (Langfuse or similar)
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to work directly with business users to translate requirements into software solutions

• 12‑month initial contract with strong extension potential
• Opportunity to shape AI adoption within a leading investment organization
• Work across both AI platform engineering and high‑impact business‑facing AI initiatives
• Exposure to cutting‑edge AI technologies including agentic systems, enterprise LLM infrastructure, and governed AI platforms
• Hybrid working with flexibility around office attendance

If you're a strong software engineer with experience delivering production AI applications and enjoy working directly with stakeholders to solve complex business problems, I'd be keen to speak with you.