Senior Applied AI Engineer

Up to £100,000

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing technology consultancy at the forefront of AI, Data and Cloud transformation, helping enterprise clients solve complex business challenges through innovative AI-driven solutions. You will play a key role in designing, building and deploying production-ready AI applications that deliver measurable business value across a range of industries.

As part of a highly collaborative consulting team, you will work across the full AI lifecycle, from discovery and solution design through to deployment and optimisation. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI Agents, MLOps and cloud-native data platforms helping clients move beyond proof-of-concept and into real-world AI adoption.

This position would suit someone who combines strong software engineering and data engineering foundations with hands-on AI and machine learning experience and a passion for building scalable, production-ready solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build applied AI and machine learning solutions for client projects.
• Develop and deploy LLM-powered applications, RAG solutions, AI agents and workflow automation tools.
• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines, feature pipelines and model training workflows.
• Productionise AI and machine learning solutions using MLOps and LLMOps best practices.
• Implement monitoring, testing, evaluation and observability frameworks for AI systems.
• Integrate AI solutions with cloud platforms, APIs, enterprise applications and data ecosystems.
• Participate in technical discovery sessions, architecture discussions and client workshops.
• Ensure AI solutions adhere to security, governance, privacy and responsible AI principles.

Skills & Experience

• Excellent Python skills with a strong foundation in software engineering and cloud-native development.
• Hands-on experience with Generative AI, LLMs, RAG solutions and AI agent frameworks.
• Experience with technologies such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, LangChain, LangGraph and LlamaIndex.
• Experience deploying and monitoring AI solutions using MLOps and LLMOps best practices.
• Knowledge of Azure, AWS or GCP, alongside CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with vector databases and search technologies such as Pinecone, Weaviate or Azure AI Search.
• Strong understanding of AI governance, security, privacy and responsible AI principles.
• Comfortable working in client-facing environments and communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What's On Offer?

• Salary up to £100,000.
• Remote working
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI, GenAI and machine learning projects.
• Exposure to a wide range of clients and industries.
• Ongoing professional development, training and certifications.
• Clear progression opportunities within a growing consultancy.
• Private healthcare and life assurance.
• Supportive, collaborative and highly technical team environment.
• Opportunity to shape AI delivery standards, accelerators and best practices.
• Work alongside experienced AI, Data and Cloud specialists on high-impact transformation programmes.