AI Engineer

Yolk Recruitment
Cardiff, South Glamorgan, CF10 2AF, United Kingdom
Last week
£75,000 – £82,000 pa

Salary

£75,000 – £82,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Mid
Education
Masters
Posted
20 May 2026 (Last week)

Benefits

Fully Remote Flexibility

AI Engineer | Hybrid | Python | AWS | LLMs | Agentic AI

We're working with a fast-growing technology business investing heavily in AI-driven product development and intelligent automation.

They're looking for an experienced AI Engineer to help build scalable, production-grade AI systems that deliver real commercial impact across their platform.

This is not a research role. It's a hands-on engineering position focused on designing, building and deploying AI capabilities into live products used by customers globally.

You'll be working across modern AI tooling, backend engineering and cloud infrastructure to develop intelligent workflows, LLM-powered features and agentic systems that improve automation, decision-making and user experience.

What you'll be doing

Building and deploying production AI applications using LLMs

Designing agentic workflows and multi-step AI pipelines

Developing scalable backend APIs and cloud-native services

Creating RAG pipelines, embeddings and AI retrieval systems

Improving AI reliability through testing, evaluation and guardrails

Working closely with engineering, product and business teams

Contributing to architecture decisions and AI best practice

Helping shape the future direction of AI capability across the business

Tech environment

Python, AWS, APIs, LLMs, RAG, Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, cloud-native architecture and modern AI engineering tooling.

What they're looking for

Strong Python backend engineering experience

Experience building and deploying LLM-based applications

Good understanding of APIs, distributed systems and cloud platforms

Hands-on experience with RAG, embeddings and AI orchestration

Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and modern engineering practices

Someone comfortable operating in a fast-moving product environment

Nice to have

Experience with agentic AI frameworks

AI evaluation and guardrail implementation

Fine-tuning or hosting LLMs

Reinforcement learning or planning systems

MSc or PhD in a relevant discipline

Why apply?

Opportunity to work on genuinely cutting-edge AI products

High-impact engineering role with real ownership

Modern tech stack and AI-first environment

Fully remote flexibility

Strong growth plans and long-term AI investmentIf you're interested in building production AI systems rather than just experimenting with them, this is a genuinely strong opportunity to join a business putting AI at the centre of its product strategy

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