Senior AI engineer Remote

Senior AI Engineer

Location: UK Remote (UK-based candidates only)

Salary: £60,000 – £70,000

Employment Type: Full-Time

Please note: Sponsorship is not available for this position.

A growing organisation is looking for a Senior AI Engineer to help design, build, and scale production‑grade AI systems and data platforms used across enterprise environments.

This is an opportunity to join a collaborative engineering function focused on building robust AI pipelines, transformation APIs, and scalable backend services that support advanced analytics and machine learning products.

As a Senior AI Engineer, you will work closely with Data Scientists and cross‑functional technical teams to product ionise machine learning models and develop high‑performance AI services.

You’ll contribute across the full engineering lifecycle—from system design and integration through to deployment, monitoring, and optimisation within cloud‑native environments.

• Design and maintain scalable AI pipelines and processing workflows
• Develop and optimise RESTful APIs and microservices for AI services
• Build cloud‑native backend systems aligned with best engineering practices
• Collaborate with Data Scientists to product ionise ML models
• Improve system performance, observability, reliability, and security
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and infrastructure automation
• Support integration and interoperability across enterprise platforms
• Translate technical requirements into scalable, maintainable solutions

• Strong experience in backend, data, or ML engineering
• Advanced Python skills and experience with FastAPI, Flask, or Django
• Experience building scalable APIs and microservices
• Strong SQL and relational database knowledge (Postgre
  
  SQL preferred)
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud environments
• Understanding of distributed systems and scalable architectures
• Exposure to machine learning, NLP, or AI‑driven systems
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, testing, and containerisation
• Strong problem‑solving and communication skills

Python, SQL, FastAPI, PyTorch, Transformers/LLMs, Terraform, Databricks, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Postgre

SQL, Kafka, Git, CI/CD, Knowledge Graphs

• Fully remote working within the UK
• Opportunity to work on cutting‑edge AI and machine learning systems
• Collaborative engineering environment
• Exposure to modern cloud and AI technologies
• Strong career growth opportunities within a growing AI function