Senior AI Engineer

Searchability
Manchester
Today
£90,000 – £100,000 pa

Salary

£90,000 – £100,000 pa

Work Location
On-site
Seniority
Senior
Posted
29 Oct 2026 (Today)

SENIOR AI ENGINEER

  • Salary up to £100,000
  • On-site in Manchester city centre
  • Python, Generative AI, RAG, LLMs, Agentic AI, Azure
  • Opportunity to develop production-grade AI solutions
  • Senior hands-on role with technical leadership responsibilities

ABOUT THE CLIENT

We're working with an established organisation investing heavily in Artificial Intelligence and the development of innovative AI solutions. Due to continued growth, they're looking for a Senior AI Engineer to help design, build and deliver advanced AI capabilities.

THE BENEFITS

  • Work with cutting-edge Generative AI technologies
  • Technical ownership and influence over AI development
  • Opportunity to mentor engineers and shape best practices
  • Collaborative environment working on complex AI projects

THE SENIOR AI ENGINEER ROLE:

You'll be responsible for designing, developing and optimising production-grade AI solutions, with a focus on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Large Language Models and agentic workflows.

Working alongside AI Platform Engineers and wider technical teams, you'll develop RAG pipelines, improve retrieval strategies, implement model fine-tuning techniques and establish evaluation frameworks to ensure AI solutions are accurate, scalable and reliable.

You'll also contribute to technical decisions, code reviews and mentoring other engineers.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

  • Strong Python programming skills
  • Commercial experience with Generative AI, LLMs and RAG
  • Experience building agentic AI systems and workflows
  • Knowledge of prompt engineering, fine-tuning and model optimisation
  • Experience developing and deploying production-grade AI/ML solutions
  • Understanding of AI evaluation and experimentation techniques
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and technical leadership experience
  • Azure AI Foundry, Graph-RAG or Microsoft Agent Framework experience advantageous

TO BE CONSIDERED:

Please either apply through this advert or email me directly via .

For further information please call me on / .

By applying for this role, you give express consent for us to process and submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only.

KEY SKILLS

Python, Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI, Machine Learning, Azure AI Foundry, Graph-RAG, Prompt Engineering, Fine-Tuning, AI Engineering

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