Job Description: Senior AI / ML Engineer-6+ months contract

Location: Manchester, UK
Type: Hybrid

ROLE PURPOSE

Design, build and operate production-grade AI and machine learning solutions across the full lifecycle. The role combines Generative AI and Agentic AI engineering with MLOps, scalable model serving, cloud infrastructure, production monitoring, and responsible engineering controls.

Key Responsibilities

• Design enterprise AI applications using Large Language Models, transformer architectures, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Agentic AI patterns such as ReAct.
• Build agents that use tools, reasoning, memory, and workflow orchestration; integrate AI capabilities with enterprise platforms through secure APIs and microservices.
• Develop, evaluate, and optimize machine learning and deep learning solutions using Python and PyTorch, taking work from experimentation through production.
• Create embedding, indexing, semantic retrieval, and ranking pipelines for grounded AI responses and enterprise knowledge use cases.
• Package models using Docker and deploy through KServe, Vertex AI endpoints, and Kubernetes-based serving platforms.
• Build CI/CD, continuous training, and continuous monitoring workflows, including model evaluation and controlled promotion across environments.
• Operate feature and model registries, model versioning, and reproducible release processes aligned to governance and risk controls.
• Monitor model quality, data quality, drift, latency, fairness signals, infrastructure health, and service-level objectives.
• Optimize inference performance and cost through autoscaling, GPU scheduling, resource management, and cloud-native architecture.
• Enable safe progressive delivery using canary, shadow, and blue/green deployments, rollback controls, and A/B testing.
• Collaborate with Product, Data Science, Platform, Architecture, Security, and Risk teams; establish reusable patterns and engineering standards.