Kyndryl

Forward Deployed Engineer - AI & Agentic Engineer

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22 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Translate customer business challenges into agentic AI applications and generative AI use cases.
  • Build and iterate agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, LLM API integrations, and production AI applications.
  • Process unstructured data into structured knowledge, including ontology extraction.
  • Write production-grade Python and FastAPI services and contribute to design, testing, code review, and deployment practices.
  • Work with relational, graph, and vector databases to model and serve data behind AI applications.
  • Collaborate with platform engineering on deployment, hosting, MLOps, and LLMOps without owning the underlying infrastructure.
  • Define AI governance, data privacy boundaries, policy enforcement, and responsible-use guardrails.
  • Instrument AI applications for observability and troubleshoot performance and reliability issues.
  • Guide clients through legacy modernization into AI-enabled workflows and translate business requirements into technical roadmaps.
  • Share deployment learnings, reusable agentic patterns, and feedback with core AI platform teams.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with exposure to AI/ML integration and API design.
  • Strong Python and FastAPI engineering skills with experience in software design, testing, code review, CI/CD, Git, and GitHub.
  • Hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, OpenAI Agents SDK, or Google Agent Development Kit, plus MCP.
  • Practical experience building RAG and LLM-based pipelines and working with vector databases.
  • Experience with Postgres, Neo4j, and Docker for building and running AI applications.
  • Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, AI/ML frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch, and the Hugging Face/open-source AI ecosystem is preferred.
  • Experience with image understanding, OCR, policy-as-code using OPA/Rego, LLM governance, and responsible-use controls is preferred.
  • Experience guiding clients through legacy application modernization and serving as a trusted technical advisor is preferred.
  • Degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Willingness to travel and work on customer premises as required.

Benefits

  • Hybrid-friendly work culture with programs supporting financial, mental, physical, and social well-being.
  • Career development support including personalized development goals, continuous feedback, certifications with Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, coaching, and hands-on learning opportunities.
  • Inclusive culture focused on belonging, empathy, continuous learning, and shared success.

Tech Stack

DockerFastAPIGitNeo4jPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonPyTorchTensorFlow

Categories

Forward Deployed
Kyndryl

About Kyndryl

10,000+ employees

Kyndryl is a public IT services company that designs, runs, and modernizes mission-critical infrastructure for large enterprises and governments. Spun off from IBM in 2021, it is headquartered in New York City and trades on the NYSE (ticker: KD). The company provides managed infrastructure, cloud migration and operations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, plus mainframe, network, security, data, and digital workplace services.

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