Lead Deployed AI Engineer

• Lead Deployed AI Engineer
• £92,000 - £115,000
• Permanent | London (Hybrid)

About Enablis

At Enablis, we deliver complex, high-impact technology transformation. We're now building a genuinely AI-native consultancy, not just experimenting, but embedding AI into how we deliver, how we operate, and how we grow.

We already have a live internal AI platform in development and a growing client pipeline. This hire will play a key part in taking that capability forward.

The Role

This role is the technical spearhead of our new-world work. Your responsibilities look like those of a startup CTO: you'll work in a small pod - typically with a Delivery Lead - and own end-to-end technical execution of client engagements: scoping, system design, build and rollout. Forward-deployed means exactly that: inside the client's environment, on their real data, within their security model.

A working prototype exists within the first days of an engagement; feedback lands every couple of days; a proven POC becomes an MVP within weeks. Between engagements, you extend our internal AI platform and codify what you proved in the field into the accelerators, templates and playbooks that make every engagement faster than the last.

What You'll Be Doing

• Building working AI proofs on real client data during Assess engagements - the prototype is the discovery tool, built while the value case is made

• Delivering client POCs and MVPs: RAG pipelines, agent architectures, LLM integrations and protocol-driven tooling (MCP, tool orchestration)
• Iterating in short loops: demoing every few days, taking feedback, changing course without ceremony
• Engineering for production from day one: guardrails, security and integration into the client's estate, scalability and telemetry - designed inside the build, not bolted on
• Proving trustworthiness with evals: golden datasets, automated evaluation pipelines, accuracy and drift monitoring - and hill-climbing on the results
• Wrangling client data: pipelines, messy edge cases, integrations that are harder than they look
• Owning and evolving our internal AI platform; codifying repeatable field patterns into reusable Enablis assets
• Leading advanced technical sessions in our upskilling programme, and upskilling client engineers during Transform engagements
• Evaluating emerging AI tools, frameworks and protocols, and making pragmatic adoption calls

What We're Looking For

Essential:

• Strong software engineering foundations (clean code, testing, CI/CD, production mindset)
• Hands-on experience with LLMs - this can come from personal projects, not just professional work (API integrations, prompt engineering, agent workflows, RAG systems)
• Proficiency in 2+ modern programming languages
• Awareness of evolving AI tooling (MCP, A2A, or similar)
• Some consultancy or client-facing experience, or a strong interest in moving into it

Desirable:

• Vector databases, embeddings, fine-tuning
• Cloud experience (AWS preferred)
• Open-source contributions or visible AI side projects
• Experience shipping AI-powered features to production

This is not a research role. We're looking for builders.

If you want to help shape a consultancy that's genuinely transforming around AI - we'd love to speak.