Jobs in Newcastle

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Engineering Manager - AI Defence Product (dominAI)

Lead a new AI-powered defence product team, line-managing AI/ML, simulation, infrastructure and web engineers while staying hands-on in TypeScript, React and Node. You own delivery end-to-end, hiring and people development, partnering with Product and technical leads, with hybrid working one day a week in Shoreditch.

Hadean London

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Lead Engineer, Lead Developer, Full Stack, .NET, C#, React, AI, Claude, Newcastle

Hands-on lead role guiding a small development team across a portfolio of applications while setting engineering standards and shaping delivery. Tech stack spans C#, .NET, Python, React, SharePoint and Azure PaaS, with an AI edge using GenAI tools such as Co-Pilot, ChatGPT or Claude. Mainly remote, with occasional travel to Leeds and other offices.

Carrington Recruitment Solutions Newcastle upon Tyne £75,000 – £85,000 pa

Remote

Research Associate/ Senior Research Associate in AI-Enabled Enzyme Engineering for PET Biorecycling

Manage the experimental delivery of an AI- and bioinformatics-augmented, high-throughput platform for discovering and engineering PET-depolymerising enzymes. Combines synthetic biology, enzyme engineering and bioinformatics to improve PETase, MHETase/BHETase and PET-binding modules through rapid Design-Build-Test-Learn cycles, working with ICOS, EBIC and international collaborators in Argentina.

Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne £37,369 – £51,258 pa

Contract

AI Automation Engineer

Senior technical lead in a shared-service AI and automation team, designing large-scale automation, Infrastructure as Code and domain-specific AI agents across Azure and OCI. Hands-on with Terraform/Bicep, CI/CD, scripting and LLM-assisted tooling, while mentoring engineers and driving AI-first, automation-first ways of working.

Emponics Newcastle upon Tyne £70,000 pa

Hybrid

AI Lead Engineer

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.

Hays Technology Newcastle upon Tyne £450 – £550 pd

Hybrid

Senior AI & Automation Engineer

Hands-on role in a Cloud Operations function, designing and delivering scalable infrastructure automation across a complex cloud estate. Focus on Terraform, Microsoft Azure and Infrastructure as Code, plus CI/CD pipelines and AI-powered automation such as LLM-assisted tooling and AI agents. Includes mentoring engineers and shaping an automation-first engineering culture.

Searchability Newcastle upon Tyne £65,000 – £70,000 pa

Hybrid Permanent

Junior AI Engineer

Join an educational software support company to help build an AI Agent, working across data preprocessing, exploratory analysis, model fine-tuning and implementation of machine learning algorithms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements and deliver scalable solutions while keeping up with the latest AI advancements. Aimed at early-career candidates with no prior experience required.

Back TO Work Gateshead £25,900 pa

Junior AI Engineer

An early-career role building an AI Agent for an educational software support company, covering data preprocessing, exploratory analysis, model fine-tuning and implementing machine learning algorithms. The position works with cross-functional teams to define requirements and deliver scalable solutions, and is aimed at someone new to the industry with no prior experience required.

Back TO Work South Shields £25,900 pa

Lead Engineer, Lead Developer, Full Stack, .NET, C#, React, AI, Claude

Hands-on lead role guiding a small development team across a portfolio of applications while setting engineering standards and shaping delivery. Tech stack spans C#, .NET, Python, React, SharePoint and Azure PaaS, with an AI-native edge using GenAI tools such as Copilot, ChatGPT or Claude. Mainly remote with occasional travel to Leeds and other offices.

Carrington Recruitment Solutions Gateshead £75,000 – £85,000 pa

Remote

AI Automation Engineer

Senior technical lead in a shared-service AI and automation team, designing large-scale automation, Infrastructure as Code and domain-specific AI agents across Azure and OCI. The role sets technical direction for industrialising provisioning, improving resilience and recovery times, and mentoring engineers while driving an AI-first, automation-first approach.

Emponics Newbury £70,000 pa

Hybrid