AI Engineer

Reference: 4838267

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Bolton Salary: 75000 (per annum)
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Full time Industry: Technology & Internet Services / Intelligent Automation Company:
Hays Consultant:
Ashley Sharp Hays office:
Manchester — 5th Floor, City Tower, Piccadilly Plaza Phone:
Email: ashley.sharpAI Engineer Help build and scale practical AI solutions that solve real business problems

We're working with an organisation that is investing heavily in AI and automation and is looking for an AI Engineer to join a growing team. This is an opportunity to work on projects that move beyond experimentation, taking AI solutions from proof of concept into production and delivering measurable business impact.

This role would suit someone with a software engineering background who has started building experience with AI technologies and wants to accelerate their development within a supportive engineering environment.

The Role As an AI Engineer, you'll work across the full solution lifecycle, helping to design, build and deploy AI-powered applications whilst ensuring the underlying integrations, data and processes are robust and scalable.

You'll be involved in:

Building AI-enabled solutions such as conversational assistants, workflow automation and intelligent document processing

Developing applications using Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and agent-based approaches

Taking solutions from prototype through to deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement

Building and maintaining APIs, integrations and data pipelines that support AI applications

Working closely with business stakeholders to understand operational challenges and translate them into practical technical solutions

Supporting user testing, rollout and adoption of new AI capabilities

Contributing to engineering standards, testing, documentation and CI/CD practices

What We're Looking For Essential Experience Experience in software engineering, application development, APIs, integrations or data pipelines

Strong programming skills in Python or a similar language

Exposure to Large Language Models, prompting, model APIs or AI applications through commercial work, study or personal projects

Experience working with SQL and real-world data Experience deploying solutions into cloud environments

Strong communication skills and the ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Demonstrable ability to learn new technologies quickly

Desirable Experience Agentic AI or AI agent frameworks

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Workflow automation platforms AI evaluation, monitoring or observability

Experience working within regulated environments

Agile delivery experience

About You This organisation is placing particular emphasis on mindset and potential.

You'll likely be:

Curious and passionate about learning new technologies

Pragmatic and focused on delivering value rather than chasing perfection

Interested in understanding business problems as well as technical challenges

Comfortable working with ambiguity and changing priorities

Open to feedback and continuous improvement

Honest about the opportunities and limitations of AISomeone who enjoys turning ideas into working solutions

If you're excited by the prospect of helping build practical AI solutions whilst developing your own expertise in a rapidly evolving field, we'd love to hear from you. #4838267 - Ashley Sharp