Artificial Intelligence Engineer

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Manchester
3 weeks ago
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AI Engineering Lead (hands on) - Interim day rate - North West England Based.

Agentic AI


Hands-on AI Engineering Lead to lead the delivery of a defined AI project for a SaaS company.


The work is suited to someone operating at Principal Engineer or Head of Engineering level who has built and shipped agentic AI systems and can do so again, quickly, in a real-world product environment.


The role is embedded within a small innovation pod and works closely with Product leadership. It is not a research role and not a people-management role.


Purpose of the role

  • Deliver a small number of high-impact, AI-enabled solutions tied to clear business outcomes
  • Accelerate execution using Amazon Q and modern engineering tooling

Key responsibilities

  • Design, build, and ship agentic AI systems where AI acts as an active collaborator in workflows
  • Deliver production-grade AI-enabled features and prototypes
  • Apply AI to concrete business and customer problems, not generic chatbots or demos
  • Work directly in the codebase on core implementation
  • Lead technical delivery for the AI project end to end
  • Make architectural decisions that balance speed, quality, and safety
  • Integrate AI capabilities into existing systems pragmatically
  • Pair with engineers as needed to unblock delivery and accelerate progress

Tooling and stack

  • Use Amazon Q as the primary AI development assistant
  • Work within a .NET and Angular technology stack
  • Operate within Azure DevOps pipelines and CI/CD workflows
  • Introduce automation only where it demonstrably improves speed or quality

Required experience - Essential

  • Demonstrable experience building and shipping agentic AI systems in real products
  • 10–15+ years of hands‑on engineering experience
  • Strong background in .NET and Angular
  • Practical, day-to-day use of Amazon Q or equivalent AI coding assistants
  • Strong judgement around system design, risk, and trade-offs


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