Senior AI Engineer - Centre of Excellence

Job Title:

Senior AI Engineer - Centre of Excellence

Location:

Home-based with travel to client site or Columbus offices as required

Salary:
Negotiable (We aim to improve your current package)

Bonus:
Yes

Holiday: 25 Days, Plus Bank Holidays (Increasing with Service)

Medical Insurance:
Yes (terms apply) plus additional Health Cashback Plan

Hours:

Full time (36.5 hpw)

Travel/Expenses: A car is required for travel to client sites - expensed at 55p per mile from home address (excluding travel to any Columbus Office within 35mi)

People always come first ’re a global digital consultancy with a local presence, helping businesses transform and thrive through technology, data, and human insight. Just as importantly, we’re a workplace where careers are nurtured, and development is supported through clear, structured career paths.

Our culture is built on trust, collaboration, curiosity, and a shared commitment to delivering customer success. Whether you're an experienced professional or just starting out, you’ll find the freedom to explore ideas, challenge convention, and shape your own path.

By joining our team, you will be part of a supportive network that values your voice, respects your ideas, and promotes a healthy work-life balance. Our average length of service in the UK is 8 years, as we are committed to cultivating an inclusive workplace culture that celebrates and supports career growth and advancement in becoming a Trusted Advisor. We provide equal opportunities for everyone, ensuring a level playing field for all candidates.

We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds to apply for positions across our organisation, and in return, we will give you the tools and support to Thrive with us,
Grow your Skillsets, and be empowered to Shape the Future
.

Enterprise software is going through its biggest shift in decades. Applications are moving from deterministic workflows to intelligent, agentic systems that understand context, remember preferences, and act on behalf of users. This isn't a future prediction; it's happening now, and Columbus is building at the frontier of it.

We're hiring three Senior Engineers to form the core of our group AI engineering team. Together, you'll design and build the next generation of AI-powered systems that will transform how thousands of people work, across the Nordics and beyond. You'll work directly with the VP of Group AI.

This is not a consulting engagement or a proof-of-concept. It's production engineering at enterprise scale, on the Microsoft platform, using the most advanced AI models available today.

We have an environment that gives you the flexibility to achieve an effective work-life balance for you and your family, whether you want to work from home or at one of our luxury Cubo offices around the UK.

We continue to offer our customers onsite consultancy time if requested, so flexibility around travel and overnight stays is expected, depending on the project requirements. Onsite time is planned ahead of time, within 2-week blocks, so you know well in advance where you will be working.

We encourage those in customer-facing roles to aim to come into the office at least once a month, and also for team meetings and client meetings; however, you can work from Nottingham HQ or any Cubo office regularly if you prefer, whichever suits you.

• Strong expertise in LLM application design, including prompt engineering, agent frameworks, and evaluation
• Good understanding of data as a foundation for AI-driven insights
• Experience building scalable, production-grade AI systems, with focus on context management,…