Kyndryl

Forward Deployed Engineer - Lead AI & Agentic Engineer

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22 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and build agentic AI applications, multi-agent workflows, and supporting frameworks for enterprise use cases.
  • Build RAG pipelines and integrate LLM APIs, vector databases, and Model Context Protocol tooling.
  • Process unstructured data into structured knowledge, including ontology extraction.
  • Develop production-grade Python and FastAPI services using sound design, testing, code review, CI/CD, and Git practices.
  • Work with Postgres, Neo4j, and other relational and graph databases to model and serve data for AI applications.
  • Collaborate with platform engineering on hosting, scaling, deployment, MLOps, and LLMOps.
  • Define AI governance, privacy boundaries, responsible-use guardrails, and policy enforcement using OPA/Rego.
  • Instrument AI applications with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus for production observability and cost monitoring.
  • Translate enterprise requirements into AI solution roadmaps for senior stakeholders.
  • Codify reusable agentic patterns, mentor engineers hands-on, and provide architectural oversight across multidisciplinary workstreams.

Requirements

  • Requires 8–10+ years of software or solution engineering experience and a track record of shipping AI systems in client-facing engagements.
  • Requires strong Python and FastAPI engineering skills with experience in design, testing, code review, CI/CD, Git, and GitHub.
  • Requires hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, OpenAI’s Agents SDK, or Google’s Agent Development Kit, plus MCP.
  • Requires practical experience building RAG and LLM-based pipelines and working with vector databases.
  • Requires experience with relational and graph databases such as Postgres and Neo4j.
  • Requires familiarity with AI coding copilots such as Claude, Codex, or Cursor.
  • Requires strong stakeholder communication and the ability to translate AI capabilities into business outcomes.
  • Preferred qualifications include OpenTelemetry and Prometheus experience, TensorFlow or PyTorch experience, familiarity with Hugging Face and the open-source AI ecosystem, image understanding and OCR experience, and OPA/Rego policy-as-code knowledge.
  • Preferred candidates understand LLM governance, data privacy, guardrails, responsible-use controls, software engineering, and technical consulting.
  • Requires a degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Informatics, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Willingness to travel and work on customer premises is preferred.

Benefits

  • Hybrid-friendly work culture with financial, mental, physical, and social well-being programs.
  • 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, professional growth, and shared success.
  • Willingness to travel and work at customer premises may be required depending on the engagement.

Tech Stack

FastAPIGitNeo4jPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonPyTorchTensorFlow

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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