DV Cleared Senior AI Engineer

Location: London (Hybrid)

Contract Type: Contract

Day Rate: £700 (Outside)

Clearance Required: Active UK DV Clearance (Mandatory)

About the Opportunity

We are partnering with a premier UK deep-tech venture that sits at the forefront of AI, robotics, and national security. They develop advanced software frameworks that converge complex, multi-modal data streams (sensor feeds, telemetry, imagery, and text) to enable real-time decision-making in high-stakes, mission-critical environments.

With rapid growth, they seek production-focused AI Engineers who thrive on high ownership, fast-paced delivery, and the opportunity to deploy agentic systems that safeguard critical national infrastructure and save lives.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect & Build: Design, optimise, and scale robust multi-agent AI pipelines and orchestration frameworks.
• Model Integration: Integrate LLMs and vision-language models (VLMs) into workflows optimised for reasoning, search, and autonomous task execution.
• Secure Deployment: Package and deploy AI systems into highly secure, cloud, on-premises, or air-gapped environments.
• Production MLOps): Build end-to-end data ingestion and inference pipelines, prioritising system reliability over speed-to-market.
• Observability & Evaluation: Implement monitoring tooling to track agent behaviour, model performance, drift, and failure modes.
• Technical Leadership: Provide subject matter expertise in agentic AI, establishing engineering patterns and mentoring junior developers.