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Senior AI Engineer
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Job Title: Senior AI Engineer
Location: UK (Hybrid - occasional on-site in the South of England)
Contract Length: Initial 6 months
IR35: Outside IR35
Rate: Dependent on experience
Start: Immediate
Key Responsibilities
- Build agent-based AI systems end-to-end. Cover orchestration, state, and tool calling.
- Engineer for production. Focus on tests, reliability, latency, and failure handling.
- Use LLMs and vision-capable models in real workflows. Include retrieval, reasoning, summarisation, and task execution.
- Deploy across cloud and restricted environments. This includes on-prem and occasional offline use.
- Set up evaluation and monitoring. Leave clear documentation for handover.
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Experience & Skills Required
- Senior software engineer (around 6+ years). Strong Python.
- Proven track record shipping LLM/agentic systems to production. Not just prototypes.
- Strong retrieval/search experience at scale. Comfortable with multi-terabyte datasets.
- Confident with Docker and Git. AWS experience is a plus.
- Secure deployment experience is beneficial. Especially on-prem or controlled networks.
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