Senior AI Engineer
1 day ago
Cambridge
Senior AI Engineer | Glasgow Hybrid | £75,000 £100,000 + bonus + exceptional benefits Before applying for this role, please read the following information about this opportunity found below. Build production-grade LLM and GenAI solutions inside one of the UK's fastest-growing enterpise AI teams. This is a hands-on engineering role with a multi-award-winning UK consultancy whose AI practice has scaled rapidly through strategic acquisition and a strong delivery pipeline across commercial, central government and defence clients. You'll be designing, building and shipping enterprise GenAI systems in Python. What you'll be doing • Designing and building production LLM and GenAI solutions in Python from prototype through architecture to deployment., • Implementing advanced RAG pipelines hybrid search, re-ranking, query rewriting, context compression, evaluation and grounding., • Working with vector stores such as Azure AI Search, Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate and Chroma, and tuning embedding models for enterprise data., • Building agentic systems using frameworks like LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, LangChain, LlamaIndex and AutoGen tool use, function calling, multi-step reasoning and orchestration., • Integrating foundation models via Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock and open-weight model endpoints (Llama, Mistral, Claude, GPT family)., • Applying prompt engineering, guardrails, evaluation and observability using tooling such as LangSmith, Langfuse, Ragas, promptfoo and Azure AI Content Safety., • Productionising solutions with FastAPI, async Python, Pydantic, Docker and Kubernetes, deployed into Azure-native infrastructure., • Partnering with data engineers, solution architects and advisory consultants on end-to-end AI programmes., • Engaging directly with senior client stakeholders to shape solution direction. What you'll bring, • Proven Python engineering background clean, tested, production-ready code., • Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM / GenAI solutions in production not just POCs or notebooks., • Strong working knowledge of RAG patterns, agentic frameworks, vector databases and embedding models., • Familiarity with prompt engineering, LLM evaluation and guardrail design (hallucination mitigation, prompt injection defence, content safety)., • Experience with cloud-native deployment Azure preferred, with Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD., • Solid grasp of LLMOps versioning, tracing, monitoring, cost management and responsible AI., • Consultative, client-ready communication comfortable translating ambiguous business problems into AI solutions. Why this role stands out, • Join a fast-scaling AIpractice backed by two strategic acquisitions and a packed pipeline of enterprise GenAI delivery., • Advisory-led, not body-shop you shape the solution, not just implement someone else's design., • Work across commercial, central government and defence genuinely interesting problems, not just marketing chatbots., • Top Employer award winner with an exceptional benefits package, strong development pathways, and a culture that consistently ranks among the best in UK tech consulting., • Real ownership, real impact, and a clear runway into senior technical leadership. In return you will get, • Competitive compensation package with strong base salary and bonus opportunities, • Generous and growing annual leave, including loyalty days and birthday leave (up to 29 days total), • Comprehensive health support, including private medical insurance and 24/7 wellbeing assistance, • Family-first policies with enhanced maternity, adoption, and paternity leave, • Flexible, trust-based working environment designed to support worklife balance