AI Engineer

AI Engineer

Rate: £600 - £644

Clearance required: BPSS + SC

Nationality requirement: UK Passport Holder

Location:
Remote (on-site once a month)

Job Description:

The AI Engineer role will be responsible for working within a Product squad to design, build and deliver GenAI and Agentic AI products. The individual must have hands‑on experience developing production‑grade GenAI/Agentic AI solutions using LLMs, RAG and agentic workflow technologies. The role requires strong Python software engineering skills alongside practical experience designing reliable, secure and maintainable AI-enabled applications.

• Strong Python software engineering experience
• Hands‑on experience developing GenAI / LLM applications
• Hands‑on experience designing and implementing Agentic AI workflows
• Experience with Lang Graph
• Strong understanding of LLM workflow design, including state, routing, tools, structured outputs and human‑in‑the‑loop patterns
• Practical experience designing and implementing RAG architectures
• Experience with document ingestion, chunking, embeddings and vector/semantic search
• Experience with prompt engineering and structured LLM outputs
• Experience with AI/LLM evaluation, testing and quality assurance
• Understanding of guardrails, grounding, hallucination mitigation and AI assurance
• Experience building and integrating APIs and backend services
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, automated testing, code review and maintainable application design
• Experience handling LLM and agent failure scenarios, retries, error handling and recovery
• Understanding of observability and tracing for GenAI/Agentic AI applications
• Azure AI & Cloud Services:
  Hands‑on experience building and deploying AI solutions on Azure, including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure AI Foundry, Cosmos DB, Redis, Azure Monitor/Application Insights, Managed Identity and Key Vault.