AI Engineer

London, United Kingdom
Last week
£600 – £644 pd

Salary

£600 – £644 pd

Job Type
Contract
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Security Clearance
Required
Posted
14 Oct 2026 (Last week)

AI Engineer

Rate: £600 - £644

Clearance required: BPSS + SC

Nationality requirement: UK Passport Holder

Location: Remote (on-site once a month)

Job Description:

The AI Engineer role will be responsible for working within a Product squad to design, build and deliver GenAI and Agentic AI products.

The individual must have hands-on experience developing production-grade GenAI/Agentic AI solutions using LLMs, RAG and agentic workflow technologies. The role requires strong Python software engineering skills alongside practical experience designing reliable, secure and maintainable AI-enabled applications.

Skills required

Strong Python software engineering experience

Hands-on experience developing GenAI / LLM applications

Hands-on experience designing and implementing Agentic AI workflows

Experience with LangGraph

Strong understanding of LLM workflow design, including state, routing, tools, structured outputs and human-in-the-loop patterns

Practical experience designing and implementing RAG architectures

Experience with document ingestion, chunking, embeddings and vector/semantic search

Experience with prompt engineering and structured LLM outputs

Experience with AI/LLM evaluation, testing and quality assurance

Understanding of guardrails, grounding, hallucination mitigation and AI assurance

Experience building and integrating APIs and backend services

Strong understanding of software engineering principles, automated testing, code review and maintainable application design

Experience handling LLM and agent failure scenarios, retries, error handling and recovery

Understanding of observability and tracing for GenAI/Agentic AI applications

Azure AI & Cloud Services: Hands-on experience building and deploying AI solutions on Azure, including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure AI Foundry, Cosmos DB, Redis, Azure Monitor/Application Insights, Managed Identity and Key Vault.

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