Senior AI Engineer - Consulting

Senior AI Engineer – Consulting

Office location to choose from:
Glasgow, London or Manchester. Hybrid working: 1‑2 days per week in the office. Salary: £70,000+ with benefits, training & bonus package. Full‑time permanent role.

Deerfoot Recruitment is supporting a leading global consultancy in the search for an AI Engineering Consultant / Senior Consultant to join its growing Data & AI practice. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced AI professional to help organisations design, build and scale enterprise‑grade AI, Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions.

The successful candidate will play a key role in bridging the gap between AI experimentation and real‑world business adoption, delivering robust, scalable and responsible AI solutions across a range of high‑profile client engagements.

• Designing and implementing end‑to‑end AI/ML solutions from development through to deployment and monitoring
• Building scalable Generative AI and Agentic AI solutions, including RAG pipelines and orchestration frameworks
• Implementing MLOps frameworks, governance and best practices
• Translating business requirements into cloud‑native AI and data architectures across Azure, AWS and GCP
• Collaborating with technical and non‑technical stakeholders to deliver measurable business value
• Supporting innovation initiatives, reusable assets, thought leadership and client proposals

• Experience working in a major consulting firm, and/or in industry
• A strong consulting mindset with experience engaging senior stakeholders
• Proven experience designing and delivering AI/ML solutions at scale
• Strong understanding of Generative AI, Agentic AI and modern AI engineering frameworks
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform including Azure, AWS or GCP

Key technical skills: AI engineering, MLOps, cloud‑native AI platforms, Lang Chain, Llama Index, MLflow, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD tooling.

You need to have resided in the UK for the last five years to apply for this role.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a forward‑thinking consultancy delivering innovative AI solutions for major enterprise clients, while benefit ting from strong career progression, flexible hybrid working and an excellent package.