Senior AI Engineer - Perm Developer Productivity
Job in
Manchester, Greater Manchester, M2 5PD, England, UK
Listed on 2026-10-16
Listing for:
Lorien Resourcing Limited
Full Time, Part Time, Contract
position Listed on 2026-10-16
Job specializations:
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Software Development
AI Engineer (Applied/Software), Software Engineer, DevOps
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Developer Productivity Manchester (hybrid, 2 days a week in the office) | Permanent | £100,000-£110,000 bonus A leading digital and retail business in the global betting and gaming industry is looking for an engineer who'd rather prove what works than sell what's fashionable. With around 250 engineers building and running its platforms, the business wants to use LLMs and coding agents to help them deliver better software, faster, and to be able to show the evidence.
This is a hands-on role. You'll work out where AI helps engineers and where it doesn't, build the tooling and workflows that make it work in real codebases, and measure the results honestly. You'll use the best available models, coding agents and open-source tools. This isn't a model-building or research role. What they're looking for:
Strong professional software engineering experience, including building and operating production software Excellent programming and software design skills, with a solid grasp of testing, CI/CD and code review Hands-on experience building with LLM APIs, including tool calling and agentic workflows Day-to-day use of AI coding tools and agents on real codebases, with an evidence-based view of where they help and where they hurt A practical understanding of how LLMs and agents fail: plausible but wrong code, fixes that mask symptoms, tests gamed to pass, context limits and cost growth Experience integrating with Git platforms, CI/CD, issue trackers and observability tooling Experience designing evaluations for AI outputs, or comparable experimental rigour Python (or similar) and SQL for preparing code, documents and tickets for retrieval Credibility with engineers and the ability to influence without line authority, including winning over sceptics Helpful:
Bitbucket, Jenkins/Harness, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, FastAPI, MCP, DORA-style measurement, RAG and vector search, self-hosted open-weight models, or a regulated environment such as gambling or financial services Guidant, Carbon
60, Lorien & SRG
- The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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