AI Engineer

About Us:

Clear Route is an engineering consultancy bridging Quality Engineering, Cloud Platforms and Developer Experience. We help enterprises reliably bring high-impact digital products to market faster, cheaper, and safer, working with technology leaders facing complex business challenges.

We take pride in our people, culture and work‑life balance as well as in making better software. We’re not just making better software; we’re making the making of software better. Collaborative, entrepreneurial and dedicated to problem solving, we bring the step change our customer needs to sustain innovation. Our values challenge us to do the best we can for Clear Route, our customers and most importantly our team.

This is an opportunity for you to build the organisation from the ground up, use your voice to drive change and help transform organisations and problem domains.

We work in a hybrid way, with two days a week working in our offices in either London or Manchester.

This role is part of an AI platform team that is building reusable foundations to accelerate the adoption of AI (ML & agentic) within one of our largest clients. We are looking for an AI/ML Engineer who can be responsible for designing, building, and deploying agentic AI solutions, working closely with product and client teams to bring use cases into production.

• Prototype and iterate on AI use cases rapidly
• Develop and implement agentic workflows; integrate LLMs, APIs, and data pipelines into scalable solutions
• Collaborate with PMs and stakeholders to refine requirements
• Ensure model performance, reliability, and monitoring
• Contribute to best practices in AI engineering and MLOps

• Strong Python with agent frameworks
• Experience with LLMs and prompt engineering
• Solid understanding of data pipelines and APIs
• Experience deploying models in production environments
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Strong problem‑solving and collaboration skills

• Knowledge of vector databases and retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG)
• Exposure to MLOps tooling (CI/CD, monitoring, model versioning)
• Experience in regulated industries (e.g. utilities, energy)

At Clear Route, we believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes, and inclusion creates the conditions for everyone to thrive. We are proud to have built a family‑friendly working environment and have many employees who have caring responsibilities alongside work. We welcome applications from people who require flexibility and will be happy to discuss needs on an individual basis.

We are committed to fostering a culture where all team members feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We celebrate individuality and our differences and understand that some differences may mean that you require changes made to the interview process. We are happy to cater to your needs to make the interview accessible; if this is something you require please let us know by emailing us at join.