McCabe & Barton
AI Engineer
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AI Engineer
Location: London, UK
Type: Hybrid - 3 days in office - 12-month contract (Inside IR35)
Rate: £700 - £950 p/d inside IR35
We are seeking an AI Engineer with a Software Engineering background to join a fast-moving team working across AI platform engineering and direct collaboration with business teams.
The role is split approximately 60/40 between platform engineering and business-facing AI delivery, focusing on building and deploying production-grade AI solutions. We are looking for someone who writes clean, production-quality code and can turn AI capability into real business impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain core AI platform components - LLM gateway, MCP connector layer, observability tooling, and privacy Proxy
- Develop and harden MCP connectors across data sources
- Build AI-powered tools and workflows for business teams, translating use cases into governed, production-ready applications
- Integrate with Databricks/Unity Catalog as the data foundation for AI features
- Contribute to spec-driven development practices - writing clear specifications before building, with appropriate test coverage
- Support prompt engineering, evaluation, and iterative improvement of deployed AI features
- Collaborate with the engineering squad to displace outsourced delivery with in-house capability
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- Hands-on experience building with LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI or similar) in production environments
- Experience building AI Solutions is essential
- Experience with agentic frameworks, tool use, and MCP or equivalent connector patterns desirable
- Familiarity with observability and evaluation tooling for AI systems
- Understanding of data platforms - Databricks or similar - and how to expose data safely to LLMs
- Security and governance awareness: prompt injection, data boundary controls, RBAC
- Comfortable working in a small, high-trust team where you own things end to end
- Python development skills is essential
- Financial services or regulated environment experience
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