AI Forward Deployed Engineer - Knowledge graphs, LLMs and RAG
Remote, UK. £90,000 to £130,000 base salary.
If you enjoy taking advanced AI systems out of the lab and into real-world enterprise environments, this role gives you the chance to do exactly that. You will work directly with highly technical customers, shaping how cutting edge NLP, knowledge graph, and LLM technology is deployed at scale, while still remaining deeply hands-on as an engineer.
The Company
They are a BioTech startup organisation building data science products that support faster and more informed drug discovery. Their platform processes vast volumes of scientific literature and structures it into high value, production-ready datasets used by global pharmaceutical organisations.
The Role
* You will lead technical delivery for enterprise customers, owning implementations from initial trials through to production deployments.
* You will work closely with customer engineering and data science teams to understand their environments and design robust AI driven integrations.
* You will design and build solutions using retrieval systems, RAG architectures, agent based workflows, and APIs.
* You will contribute to technical scoping during pre-sales, helping shape feasible and scalable solutions.
* You will identify recurring customer needs and feed these back into the core platform, supporting productisation.
* Alongside customer work, you will contribute directly to internal platform and engineering initiatives.
Your Skills and Experience
* Strong commercial experience deploying NLP or LLM powered systems into production environments.
* Hands-on experience with retrieval augmented generation, vector databases, and retrieval or recommendation systems.
* Practical experience building, debugging, and operating end to end LLM workflows.
* A solid engineering mindset with comfort working across data platforms, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
* Exposure to graph databases and modern data warehouses is highly beneficial.
* Confidence working in customer facing settings, explaining technical trade-offs and collaborating across technical and commercial stakeholders.
What They Offer
* Base salary between £90,000 and £130,000, depending on experience + benefits
* Fully remote working with flexibility and autonomy.
* The opportunity to work on high impact AI products used by leading enterprise customers.
* Clear scope to influence product direction and grow alongside a scaling, venture backed business.
* Additional benefits and development support within a collaborative, engineering led culture.
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