Forward‑Deployed AI Engineer

Full Description

Do you want to tackle the biggest questions in finance with near infinite compute power at your fingertips?

G-Research is a leading quantitative research and technology firm, with offices in London and Dallas.

We are proud to employ some of the best people in their field and to nurture their talent in a dynamic, flexible and highly stimulating culture where world-beating ideas are cultivated andrewarded.

This is a role based in our new Soho Place office – opened in 2023 - in the heart of Central London and home to our Research Lab.

The role

The Applied AI team acts as an internal strike force: small, high‑impact groups that embed directly within business units, research groups and platform teams to accelerate the adoption of AI techniques across the firm.

As a Forward‑Deployed AI Engineer you will turn LLM capabilities into production solutions that drive measurable value, from intelligent workflows to research agents.

Your day‑to‑day will alternate between rapid prototyping, integrating with existing systems and coaching domain experts on best practices for maintainable, safe LLM applications. Success is measured by the speed and robustness with which internal partners can ship and own new AI‑based features.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Engaging directly with internal clients to understand pain points, identify AI opportunities and shape solution roadmaps

• Building end‑to‑end AI‑powered systems in Python using LangGraph, and similar orchestration frameworks, FastAPI, MCPs and vector‑based retrieval services

• Fine‑tuning and optimising models (parameter‑efficient or full‑weight) to meet domain‑specific accuracy, latency and cost targets

• Designing RAG and agentic workflows that safely combine proprietary data with public and on prem models

• Integrating new services with existing C#, C++ or JVM‑based stacks, ensuring clear APIs, monitoring and CI/CD pipelines.

• Establishing repeatable patterns, such as reference architectures, templated infra testing harnesses, that enable teams to self‑serve future use‑cases

• Upskilling engineers and analysts through pair‑programming, workshops and written playbooks on AI engineering best practices

• Staying on top of the LLM ecosystem, including tooling, evaluation techniques and open‑source releases, and feeding lessons learned back into the wider AI Engineering Department

Who are we looking for?

We value pragmatic engineers who combine deep technical ability with strong product intuition and impeccable stakeholder communication. You should enjoy moving between green‑field proofs‑of‑concept and hardening them into resilient, audited services.

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Proven expertise in Python for production systems, with fluency in modern async patterns, typing and testing frameworks

• Hands‑on experience building Agentic AI applications with LangGraph and LangChain, Pydantic, FastAPI, MCPs and RAG, such as pgvector, Pinecone, Qdrant and Milvus

• Demonstrable skill fine‑tuning or parameter‑efficiently adapting foundation models, such as LoRA, QLoRA and DPO, and evaluating their performance

• Solid understanding of RAG patterns, prompt engineering, evaluation metrics and safe deployment considerations

• Comfort integrating with heterogeneous tech stacks, such as REST/gRPC, message buses and SQL/NoSQL stores, and automating their deployment with Git, Docker and Kubernetes

• Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans and to communicate trade‑offs to both technical and non‑technical audiences

Desirable:

• Exposure to enterprise security, data‑privacy and model‑governance frameworks

• Experience running low‑latency inference on‑prem GPU clusters or hybrid cloud environments

• Knowledge of experiment‑tracking, offline evaluation and A/B‑testing pipelines for LLM applications

• Contributions to open‑source AI‑engineering projects or publication of technical blogs and talks

Why should you apply?

• Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus

• Lunch provided (via Just Eat for Business) and dedicated barista bar

• 30 days’ annual leave

• 9% company pension contributions

• Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance

• Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance

• Cycle-to-work scheme

• Monthly company events