Artificial Intelligence Engineer
hace 3 días
City of London
AI Engineer (Contract) – £500/day Outside IR35 📍 Canary Wharf, London (3 days onsite) 🇬🇧 UK-based applicants only We’re looking for experienced AI Engineers who think holistically, automate relentlessly, and know how to turn modern AI capabilities into production-grade, high-impact applications. Our AI organisation is building real-world AI products that deliver business value at speed. This role is ideal for seasoned engineers who combine strong software engineering fundamentals with a pragmatic, hands-on approach to AI tooling and infrastructure. What you’ll be doing • Designing, building, and maintaining production-grade AI applications using modern engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, observability, cloud-native design)., • Developing reusable AI platforms and tools (e.g. conversational bots, AI-powered search, unstructured data processing, GenAI solutions)., • Working in cross-functional, embedded teams with business stakeholders to rapidly deliver AI solutions to high-priority problems., • Evaluating and integrating AI tools and frameworks (LLMs, vector databases, RAG, AI agents) into robust, scalable systems., • Championing automation across the full AI lifecycle—from data ingestion and preprocessing to deployment and monitoring., • Collaborating closely with data scientists, product managers, and engineers to ensure reliable end-to-end delivery., • Contributing to internal tooling, documentation, and best practices to scale AI engineering capability. What we’re looking for • Several years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping complex systems to production., • Strong Python skills and experience building APIs, microservices, and backend systems., • Solid understanding of software architecture, cloud infrastructure (AWS and/or Azure), and modern DevOps practices., • Hands-on experience integrating ML models into production systems (LLMs via APIs, fine-tuning, RAG, embeddings, agents)., • Experience with tools such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, Hugging Face, Weaviate, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar., • Hands-on work with Retrieval Augmented Generation, AI agents, and agent orchestration frameworks., • Experience working with unstructured data (documents, conversations, images)., • Background in platform engineering, internal developer tools, or forward-deployed/embedded team models., • Rate: £500 per day, • Location: Canary Wharf, London (3 days onsite per week), • Eligibility: Must be UK-based