Senior AI Engineer / Developer

Seeking an experienced AI Engineer / Developer to design and deliver production-grade AI systems using Large Language Models (LLMs).

This is a hands-on senior role focused on building scalable, enterprise-ready AI solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement LLM-powered applications
• Build and optimise RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) pipelines
• Develop AI agents with tool integration and multi-step workflows
• Engineer scalable Python-based services and APIs
• Implement semantic search using vector databases
• Deploy and manage AI solutions within cloud environments (Azure preferred)
• Contribute to best practices across evaluation, monitoring and reliability
• Provide technical guidance within a growing AI function

Required Experience

• Strong commercial experience building LLM-driven systems
• Hands-on RAG architecture implementation
• Solid Python software engineering background
• Experience with frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex or similar
• Exposure to vector databases and embedding workflows
• Cloud deployment experience (Azure advantageous)
• Experience delivering production systems at scale

Role Type

Both Permanent / Contract options available.

Location

Remote (with occasional travel to office).

Salary

Permanent roles:  £100k+ (potentially more for specialist experience).

Contract:  Day rates