Incubator for Artificial Intelligence
Staff Applied AI Engineer
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Staff Applied AI Engineer | Incubator for AI (i.AI)
What if you could shape how AI is applied across an entire country?
At i.AI, we're building AI products inside the UK Government that are transforming public services across health, education, planning and beyond.
We're looking for Staff Applied AI Engineers to tackle some of the most ambitious AI challenges in government. You'll combine deep technical expertise with strong product judgement, helping define technical direction, identify high-value opportunities, and build AI systems that deliver meaningful impact at national scale.
You'll work at the frontier of applied AI, evaluating emerging techniques, shaping architectural decisions, and driving the development of production-grade AI products. Alongside hands-on engineering, you'll mentor others, influence technical strategy, and help teams navigate complex trade-offs around performance, safety, scalability and deployment.
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Our stack: Python, TypeScript, AWS, Azure, GCP, PyTorch, LangGraph, LangChain, DSPy, Langfuse, Inspect and access to the latest frontier models.
What makes this role different?
- Influence how frontier AI is applied across government
- Build products that improve services used by millions of people
- Access frontier models, significant compute and unique datasets
- Work alongside exceptional engineers, researchers and policymakers
- Own complex technical problems from concept to deployment
- Help shape engineering standards, AI strategy and technical direction
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Salary: Level 6: £125,000- £135,000 (Base £71,525 + Technical Allowance £53,475- £63,475) plus a 28.97% employer pension contribution.
📍 London, Manchester or Bristol (Hybrid)
📄 Fixed-term contract (24 months)
📅 Applications open until positions are filled
We know exceptional engineers come from a variety of backgrounds. If you're excited about solving meaningful problems with AI and helping define what's possible in the public sector, we'd love to hear from you.
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