Senior AI Engineer

Lynx Recruitment
Sw1E5Lb, United Kingdom
Today
£60,000 – £80,000 pa

Salary

£60,000 – £80,000 pa

Seniority
Senior
Posted
23 Sep 2026 (Today)

Lynx Recruitment is working with a specialist technology and AI consultancy that is looking for a Senior AI Engineer to lead the design and delivery of production-grade Generative AI and agentic systems.

This is a hands-on technical role where you’ll take ownership from architecture and prototyping through to deployment, monitoring and continuous evaluation.

Key responsibilities:

  • Design and deliver production GenAI and multi-agent systems
  • Build agentic workflows, RAG solutions, tool use and multi-step orchestration
  • Define evaluation strategies and implement AI observability
  • Design secure AWS deployment architectures
  • Build CI/CD pipelines and production-ready AI applications
  • Lead technical discussions with clients and senior stakeholders
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership
  • Establish best practices around prompt design, guardrails and responsible AI

Key experience:

  • 3+ years of software or machine learning engineering experience
  • 2+ years building and deploying GenAI/LLM applications in production
  • Strong Python development skills
  • Hands-on experience with LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI or similar
  • Experience with AWS, particularly Bedrock, Lambda, ECS, EKS or SageMaker
  • Strong understanding of RAG, agentic AI and multi-agent architectures
  • Experience with CI/CD, cloud infrastructure and application deployment
  • Comfortable working directly with clients and senior stakeholders
  • Experience leading technical workstreams or small engineering teams
  • 2:1 or above in an IT/Tech/Business related degree

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