
Forward Deployed AI Engineer
UDG
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Barcelona • 🇪🇸 Spain
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JuniorMid-Level
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudETLGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonPyTorchScikit-LearnTensorflow
About the role
- You design, build, and deploy production-ready AI solutions that deliver measurable business impact — from intelligent automation and AI agents to predictive analytics and generative AI applications
- You move fast, taking ideas from prototype to production, using modern frameworks (e.g. LangChain, AutoGen) and foundation models (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source LLMs)
- You integrate AI into existing business systems via APIs and data pipelines, ensure safe and reliable operation through governance and monitoring, and optimise performance and costs for commercial viability
- You work embedded within client organisations to understand real processes, drive adoption, and enable AI-led change
Requirements
- Strong AI/ML implementation experience (2+ years) building and deploying production AI systems
- University degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Science, or related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Strong Python skills, solid data engineering capabilities (pipelines, vector databases, ETL), API and integration experience, and practical ML foundations (scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- Proven experience shipping AI systems to production, with cloud infrastructure knowledge (AWS, Azure, GCP incl. GPU/serverless), full-stack development around AI applications, DevOps/MLOps practices (CI/CD, monitoring, model versioning), and performance optimisation across cost, latency, and scalability
- Fluent English (written and spoken) - additional languages (German, Spanish) are valuable for DACH and Spain regions
Benefits
- Legal right to work in the region of employment (UK and EU)
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Hard skills
AI implementationML implementationPythondata engineeringETLAPI integrationscikit-learnPyTorchTensorFlowcloud infrastructure
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationadaptabilityproblem-solvingclient engagement
Certifications
University degree in Computer ScienceUniversity degree in AI/MLUniversity degree in Data Science