Agentic Solutions Engineer (UK)

Agentic Solutions Engineer

Type: Full-time permanent
Working pattern: Flexible home office or hybrid
Location: Within 50 miles of an office Edinburgh Newcastle Leeds Manchester or London

Were hiring an Agentic Solutions Engineer to lead the earliest most open stage of our client work.

Youll be the first engineer through the door on a new client engagement. Before theres a team before theres a plan with no one ahead of you telling you how to build it.

Just a client trusting you to work out whats possible then build the proof a delivery team can scale from.

Most engineering roles start once the hard decisions are made. This one starts before them.

If that sounds exciting rather than daunting this could be for you.

Why youd want this

You decide how the work gets done.

Most companies wrap their AI accounts in governance and access controls that block half of whats useful. We dont. Swap one AI tool for another wire them into your stack whatever suits the problem. No permission needed.

The work spans sectors from healthcare and commerce to media and education and its live transformation that ships.

On a recent 19-week build an AI insights platform turning complex data into clear multilingual analysis AI was embedded from day three and 80.5% of authored commits carried verifiable AI co-authorship.

We call the approach Run: deliver something the business needs now use that work to set better engineering practices and leave the team stronger than you found it. Youre close to clients from the start so the effect of your decisions is visible.

About hedgehog lab

Were a UK digital product consultancy and a certified B Corp with 20 years behind us and teams in Edinburgh Newcastle Leeds Manchester and London.

AI reaches beyond the engineering floor. Around 40 people across the business recruitment and operations included are working out how AI changes their own roles.

What youll do

• Turn customer goals into a solution architecture and technology choices

• Build proofs of concept that validate your design and hand off cleanly

• Define the agentic engineering pipeline: tooling workflows and guardrails for AI coding agents

• Shape the quality strategy including test approach and code review

• Make other engineers more capable pairing on real work and leaving patterns client teams can own

• Own the architectural decision records

Whos this is for

Youll be in front of clients from the first week not just building behind the scenes. Shaping ambiguous problems and explaining your thinking to non-technical people is core to the job. If youd rather keep your head down and code this isnt for you.

Experience youll need to be considered

• Real experience using AI agents to build production software not copy-pasting from ChatGPT

• The ability to break down a complicated poorly defined problem and ship something that works

• Strong TypeScript or Python comfortable across the full stack with frameworks such as NestJS or FastAPI

• Experience meeting and presenting to clients directly

• Strong written communication especially for ADRs and docs others rely on

• Experience in consulting professional services or a forward-deployed role

• A pragmatic take on architecture sized to POC pilot or production

Where youll work

This is a permanent role. We dont mandate office days but we value time together in person as a team and with clients.

From time to time there will be client presentations and meetings wed expect you to attend in person.

To make that work youll need to be based within 50 miles of one of our offices in Edinburgh Newcastle Leeds Manchester or London.

How to apply

Apply below or get in touch if you want to talk it through first.