Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

About this role

Uniphore is the Business AI company. Our sovereign, composable and secure AI platform connects enterprise data, fine-tunes AI models and deploys agentic AI across the enterprise. We empower every worker to boost productivity and help businesses grow faster, operate smarter and reduce costs. Trusted by more than 2,000 businesses globally, and recognized on the Deloitte Fast 500, Uniphore delivers on the promise of AI as a transformative force for business.

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Customer Delivery
• Lead end to end solution development for multiple high-stakes customer deployments; manage technical strategy, design quality, and roadmaps for Agentic AI rollouts at enterprise scale.
• Primary technical point of contact from integration design through to post-deployment optimisation
• Translate ambiguous requirements into structured engineering plans with clear milestones and success criteria
• Customise and extend platform components—APIs, tooling, and bespoke logic
• Architecture & Standards
• Architect robust, scalable, and compliant Agentic AI solutions across industries
• Lead multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, and LLM/SLM integration design
• Champion observability, telemetry, and auditable AI standards
• Build and maintain reusable frameworks and asset libraries
• Team & Product
• Help build and guide cross-functional Forward Deployed Engineering teams; coach senior/junior engineers, and cultivate a culture of excellence, collaboration, and innovation.
• Provide structured product feedback to Platform Engineering on feature gaps and pain points
• Contribute to playbooks, best practices, and technical blog posts

Qualifications

• Required
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• 8–12+ years engineering experience; 3+ years in customer-facing or FDE roles
• Proven track record deploying AI/ML or data-intensive applications in production
• Strong full-stack

skills

• Python, Node.js/Go, React/Vue, SQL, REST/GraphQL
• DevOps proficiency: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and major cloud platforms
• Expertise in LLMs, Prompt Engineering, Vector DBs, RAG pipelines, and Agentic orchestration frameworks
• Agentic / Integrations: MCP, Salesforce/ SAP/ Other
• Excellent communication with both technical and executive stakeholders
• Mentorship capability and collaborative team-first mindset
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• BS / MS / PhD in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field
• Preferred
• -
• SLM fine-tuning and/or distillation experience
• Hands-on with dedicated Agentic AI platforms (e.g. Agentforce, Copilot Studio)
• Knowledge of AI compliance

requirements

Gdpr, EU AI Act, Soc 2, Hipaa

• Open-source or research contributions to LangChain, RAG, or Knowledge Graph communities

Location preference:

UK

• London

Uniphore is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

For more information on how Uniphore uses AI to unify—and humanize—every enterprise experience, please visit www.uniphore.com.