# Forward Deployed Engineer - Lead AI & Agentic Engineer

Who We Are At Kyndryl, we run and reimagine the mission-critical technology systems that drive advantage for the world’s leading businesses. We are at the heart of progress; with proven expertise and a continuous flow of AI-powered insight, enabling smarter decisions, faster innovation, and a lasting competitive edge. For our people-Kyndryls-that means doing purposeful work that powers human progress. Join us and experience a flexible, supportive environment where your well-being is prioritized and your potential can thrive. The Role Your Role As a Forward Deployed Lead / Principal Engineer (FDE) with an AI & Agentic Engineering focus (Band 9), you own the technical direction and delivery of major enterprise AI programmes - architecting the agentic systems and generative AI applications that go into production in close collaboration with platform engineering. You align enterprise goals with target-state AI architectures for senior stakeholders, guide the team’s technical direction while staying close to the work, and work hand-in-hand with the platform engineers on the team throughout design, build, and deployment. You combine deep expertise in agentic AI systems, RAG, and applied

- **Id**: 4342295
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kyndryl-forward-deployed-engineer-lead-ai-agentic-engineer-2>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Liverpool, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T19:16:46Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7000
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, IT Infrastructure & Networking Services, Systems Integrators, Cloud Consulting & Migration

## Company

- **Id**: 91
- **Name**: Kyndryl
- **Domain**: kyndryl.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kyndryl>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 155
- **Ghost share**: 0.006
- **Stale share**: 0.677
- **Repost share**: 0.019
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 34
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AutoGen** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **CrewAI** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **LLMOps** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **Neo4j** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Agents SDK** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Kernel** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: yes
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes
- **OCR** — Optional: yes
- **PyTorch** — Optional: yes
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-15T19:16:46Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker); Route: Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 34
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T20:56:30Z

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