Artificial Intelligence Jobs

Databricks · London

Owns the core write-path operations for Delta Lake, the open-source storage layer behind the Databricks Lakehouse, driving performance innovations like Low Shuffle Merge and Deletion Vectors. Designs and maintains high-QPS, low-latency backend systems at massive scale, with technical leadership, mentoring and cross-team project planning.

Hays Technology · Newcastle upon Tyne · £450 – £550 pd

Hands-on technical lead role within a major AI transformation programme, designing and building production-grade RAG pipelines, semantic search, vector/embedding infrastructure and generative AI capabilities. Involves LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, AI evaluation and guardrails, MLOps, and mentoring engineers while integrating solutions into complex cloud and legacy environments.

Darktrace · Cambridge

Acts as the go-to authority in a chosen reliability specialism—observability, performance engineering, data infrastructure, security-focused SRE or network reliability—defining standards and best practices across SRE, Platform Engineering and DevSecOps. Builds tooling and automation, leads deep-dive investigations into systemic issues, and contributes to incident response and on-call rotations in a cloud-native, Kubernetes-based environment.

Wayve · London

Owns reliability of large-scale GPU, Kubernetes and distributed AI training infrastructure, turning recurring operational problems into durable engineering solutions. Improves observability, automation, deployment safety, capacity planning and incident learning, and builds GitOps delivery with Argo CD or Flux. Works across AI Platform, Compute & Data Platform and Cloud Infrastructure teams.

OpenAI · London

Hands-on engineering partner to international public-sector customers, delivering scoped GenAI and agentic use cases from mission need through architecture, evaluations, production and handoff. Works with government agencies, systems integrators and cloud providers on data residency, sovereign and regulated deployments, building prototypes on model APIs and Codex while feeding insights back to Product and Research.

Hays Technology · United Kingdom · £90,000 – £100,000 pa

Hands-on technical lead for a large-scale AI programme at a digital consultancy, turning architectural direction into production-grade systems across complex legacy and multi-cloud environments. Responsibilities span RAG pipelines, semantic search, embedding infrastructure, orchestration, Responsible AI guardrails, LLMOps and mentoring client-side engineers.

Wayve · London

Build and operate a globally distributed Data Transfer Hub moving petabytes of video, LiDAR and sensor data per day between Wayve and partners such as Uber, Stellantis and Nissan. Write pipeline logic in Python, manage infrastructure with Terraform, and use Flyte, Kafka and Azure for orchestration, event-driven lifecycle tracking and storage. The small, high-autonomy team owns production reliability, observability and cost efficiency, with an out-of-hours on-call rotation once the service is established.

CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler · Uxbridge · £600 – £625 pd

Hands-on technical leadership across a major airline's Data & AI team, driving a 2026 data engineering workstream. You will design scalable AWS data pipelines, implement CI/CD and DevOps practices, and mentor data and software engineers. Snowflake and AI-assisted development experience are desirable.

Adria Solutions · Huddersfield · £35,000 – £45,000 pa

Supports AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and automation for software and machine learning workloads, including packaging, versioning and deploying ML models. Works alongside software and AI engineers to keep development, testing and production environments consistent, monitoring pipelines and fixing issues. Suited to an early-career engineer with cloud, scripting and Git foundations and an interest in MLOps.

DCV Technologies · London

Designs and builds agentic AI systems with multi-step reasoning, planning and action execution, using Python, Azure OpenAI, Semantic Kernel and LangGraph for multi-agent orchestration. Works on RAG architecture, vector stores, MCP tool integration and productionising LLM services for a major UK retailer, with a focus on performance, cost, latency, governance and responsible AI.

Ocado · Sofia, Bulgaria

Senior backend role with a strong AI focus, designing and building cloud-native distributed services for the OMRS platform that runs thousands of autonomous robots across 120+ live sites. You'll use agentic AI tools daily to ship features faster, improve system stability, and shape how the whole team builds, including on-call duties.

Carrington Recruitment Solutions · Birmingham · £80,000 – £90,000 pa

Hands-on full stack lead role guiding a small development team across a portfolio of applications, setting engineering standards while collaborating with Product, Architecture and wider technical groups. Tech stack spans C#, .NET, Python, Azure PaaS (Functions, Logic Apps, Cosmos DB, App Service, ARM/Bicep), SharePoint and React, with an AI edge and GenAI exposure welcome. Mainly remote with occasional Birmingham office visits and light travel to other offices.

Carrington Recruitment Solutions · Sheffield · £80,000 – £90,000 pa

Hands-on full stack lead role guiding a small development team across a portfolio of applications, setting engineering standards while collaborating with Product, Architecture and wider technical groups. Work spans C#, .NET, Python, Azure PaaS, SharePoint and React, with an AI edge including GenAI tooling and taking experiments through to production-grade solutions.

University of Exeter · Exeter · £21,805 pa

Investigates whether small language models running on local workstations or on-premises servers can serve as reliable agents for bounded business workflows. The student will distil agentic capability from large teacher models via harness optimisation and fine-tuning on execution traces, measuring reliability, cost, latency and data locality, and releasing open tooling for UK SMEs.

Jam Management Consultancy ltd · Reading · £35,000 – £38,000 pa

Graduate role investigating and resolving technical issues across enterprise software platforms, analysing system performance and supporting troubleshooting on cloud-based applications. Works alongside experienced engineers on analysis, testing and continuous improvement, with exposure to AI, ML, NLP, SaaS, IoT and languages including Python, C#, .NET, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, C++ and SQL.