Asset & Wealth Management - Software Engineer, AI Platform and Services - Associate - Birmingham

Asset & Wealth Management - Software Engineer, AI Platform and Services - Associate - Birmingham  Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

What you’ll do:

• Build agentic AI systems:Design and implement tool-calling agents that combine retrieval, structured reasoning, and secure action execution (function calling, change orchestration, policy enforcement) following MCP protocol. Engineer robust guardrails for safety, compliance, and least-privilege access.
• Productionize LLMs:Build evaluation framework for open-source and foundational LLMs; implement retrieval pipelines, prompt synthesis, response validation, and self-correction loops tailored to production operations.
• Integrate with runtime ecosystems:Connect agents to observability, incident management, and deployment systems to enable automated diagnostics, runbook execution, remediation, and post-incident summarization with full traceability.
• Collaborate directly with users:Partner with production engineers, and application teams to translate production pain points into agentic AI roadmaps; define objective functions linked to reliability, risk reduction, and cost; and deliver auditable, business-aligned outcomes.
• Safety, reliability, and governance:Build validator models, adversarial prompts, and policy checks into the stack; enforce deterministic fallbacks, circuit breakers, and rollback strategies; instrument continuous evaluations for usefulness, correctness, and risk.
• Scale and performance:Optimize cost and latency via prompt engineering, context management, caching, model routing, and distillation; leverage batching, streaming, and parallel tool-calls to meet stringent SLOs under real-world load.
• Build a RAG pipeline:Curate domain-knowledge; build data-quality validation framework; establish feedback loops and milestone framework maintain knowledge freshness.
• Raise the bar:Drive design reviews, experiment rigor, and high-quality engineering practices; mentor peers on agent architectures, evaluation methodologies, and safe deployment patterns.

A Bachelor’s degree (Masters/ PhD preferred) in a computational field (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, or in a related quantitative discipline), with 5+ years of experience as an applied data scientist / machine learning engineer.

• 3-5 years of software development in one or more languages (Python, C/C++, Go, Java); strong hands‑on experience building and maintaining large‑scale Python applications preferred.
• 3 years designing, architecting, testing, and launching production ML systems, including model deployment/serving, evaluation and monitoring, data processing pipelines, and model fine‑tuning workflows.
• Practical experience with Large Language Models (LLMs): API integration, prompt engineering, fine tuning/adaptation, and building applications using RAG and tool‑using agents (vector retrieval, function calling, secure tool execution).
• Understanding of different LLMs, both commercial and open source, and their capabilities (e.g., OpenAI, Gemini, Llama, Qwen, Claude).
• Solid grasp of applied statistics, core ML concepts, algorithms, and data structures to deliver efficient and reliable solutions.
• Strong analytical problem‑solving, ownership, and urgency; ability to communicate complex ideas simply and collaborate effectively across global teams with a focus on measurable business impact.
• Proficiency building and operating on cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS), including containerized services (ECS/EKS), serverless (Lambda), data services (S3, Dynamo
  
  DB, Redshift), orchestration (Step Functions), model serving (Sage Maker), and infra‑as‑code (Terraform/Cloud Formation).

Healthcare & Medical Insurance:
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Vacation:
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of…