Gen AI Staff Engineer

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Tech stack: GenAI, LLMs, ML, backend APIs, cloud experience, containerisation, Dev Sec Ops

Location: Fully remote, must be UK based

Salary: up to £84,000 (depending on experience)

Benefits: Share scheme, 6% matched pension and others

Contract type: Full time, permanent

Sanderson Recruitment are exclusively supporting a FTSE 100 Financial Services and Insurance business in the search for a Gen AI Staff Engineer.

This is a hands‑on technical leadership position, ideal for a dynamic and proactive engineer who thrives on solving complex challenges and driving technical excellence in a fast‑paced, innovative environment. You’ll lead the design, development and delivery of advanced AI solutions, including Machine Learning and LLM.

You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the GenAI strategy, setting technical direction and ensuring robust, scalable and secure AI implementations. Working closely with engineering, data, security, architecture and operations teams, you’ll mentor engineers and help the organisation adopt GenAI responsibly.

• Architect, build and maintain AI solutions, including ML and LLM applications.
• Lead technical design from requirements gathering to live release.
• Ensure seamless integration of AI components with APIs, data and user‑facing systems.
• Own testing, monitoring, security, performance and Dev Sec Ops  for AI systems.
• Drive technical excellence, set engineering standards and mentor junior engineers.
• Encourage and practice Test Driven Development and delivery best practices.
• Actively contribute to Agile ceremonies and technical forums.
• Address technical debt and champion continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, communicating effectively with both technical and non‑technical audiences.

• Proven experience as a Staff-level engineer with hands‑on software development expertise.
• Significant experience building GenAI solutions (ML and LLM).
• Experience with REST APIs and SQL databases (Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL, MS SQL).
• Cloud experience, ideally with GCP and Vertex.
  
  AI or Azure and Azure
  
  AI.
• Familiarity with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins).
• Advanced Prompt Engineering skills and experience with 3rd‑party models (e.g., Anthropic).
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and mentoring skills, with a proven ability to up‑skill and develop team capabilities.
• Understanding of Agile Scrum methodology and Dev Sec Ops  practices.
• Knowledge of identity management frameworks, security tools and performance testing.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Information Technology

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