AI Forward Deployed Engineer
Kaidon.aiAbout the role
About the Role
As one of our FDEs, you’ll deploy the latest generative AI technologies and infrastructure to solve high-stakes problems for some of the world’s most influential companies. This role is perfect for customer-focused software engineers who enjoy building practical, custom software in fast-moving, high-impact environments. You'll work in small teams to rapidly prototype and deliver scalable AI solutions—such as LLM workflows and agentic systems—while collaborating closely with Sales, Solutions Engineers, and Customer Success to ensure our innovations meet real enterprise needs.
Responsibilities
Collaborate deeply with clients to understand their strategic objectives, technical requirements, and operational constraints.
Design, prototype, and deploy AI-powered PoCs using generative models (e.g., GPT, DALL-E) and agentic systems tailored to specific client needs.
Build end-to-end pipelines for deploying AI solutions on client infrastructure, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.
Use an experiment-driven approach to rapidly test hypotheses and refine prototypes in collaboration with client teams.
Work closely with Sales, Applied Research, Product Development, and Customer Success teams to ensure seamless project execution.
Document best practices and lessons learned from client projects to contribute to internal knowledge bases.
Mentor junior engineers on the application of generative and agentic AI technologies in real-world scenarios.
Qualifications
Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python or JavaScript, with experience in frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch.
Hands-on experience with generative AI models (e.g., GPT-4/5), agentic systems, or reinforcement learning frameworks.
Familiarity with deploying machine learning models in production environments using cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) or on-premise systems.
Required Skills
Proven ability to translate abstract business challenges into concrete technical solutions using generative AI.
Strong analytical skills to evaluate model performance and optimize for specific use cases.
Exceptional communication skills for explaining complex AI concepts to diverse stakeholders.
Ability to build trust-based relationships with clients and navigate ambiguous problem domains collaboratively.
Flexibility to work across industries such as healthcare, finance, defense, or retail while tailoring solutions to each domain.
Willingness to travel or work on-site with clients as required.
Preferred Skills
Experience in client-facing roles and managing stakeholder expectations.
Knowledge of industry-specific regulations and compliance standards.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate deeply with clients to understand their strategic objectives, technical requirements, and operational constraints.
- Design, prototype, and deploy AI-powered PoCs using generative models tailored to specific client needs.
- Build end-to-end pipelines for deploying AI solutions on client infrastructure.
- Use an experiment-driven approach to rapidly test hypotheses and refine prototypes.
- Work closely with Sales, Applied Research, Product Development, and Customer Success teams.
- Document best practices and lessons learned from client projects.
- Mentor junior engineers on the application of generative and agentic AI technologies.
Qualifications
- Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python or JavaScript.
- Hands-on experience with generative AI models and agentic systems.
- Familiarity with deploying machine learning models in production environments.
Skills mentioned
About Kaidon.ai
Hiring, built for modern companies. Kaidon AI is an AI-powered recruitment platform with embedded expertise when you need it. We help companies manage hiring from start to finish — bringing sourcing, assessment and decision-making into one place, and reducing the need for fragmented tools and manual workflows. The Kaidon Platform End-to-end AI recruitment software designed for modern teams: AI sourcing and talent mapping — ranked candidate pools the moment a role opens Structured hiring with scorecards and assessment frameworks that replace gut-feel decisions An AI candidate assistant that guides every applicant from first interaction to start date Full pipeline visibility with bottleneck detection and source comparison built in Hiring support, when you need delivery not just tools Alongside the platform, we deliver specialist hiring across AI, Cloud, HPC and Go-To-Market through three service models: Staffing — flexible contract and interim hires with fast turnaround Contingency Recruitment — permanent hires on a success-based model Embedded Talent — fractional or full-time talent partners working inside your team Who we work with Startups scaling their first teams. Scale-ups building GTM and engineering functions quickly. Enterprises filling critical technical roles. Some teams use Kaidon to run their own hiring. Others use us to deliver it. Many use both. We combine the structure of in-house hiring with the speed of recruitment — cutting cycle times while raising the quality bar. Serving the UK, Europe and UAE.