AI Engineer

AI Engineer Rate: £600 - £644 Clearance required: BPSS + SC Nationality requirement: UK Passport Holder Location: Remote (on-site once a month) Job Description: The AI Engineer role will be responsible for working…

Pay rate £600 – £644/day
Contract type Contract
Posted 14 October 2026

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AI Engineer
Rate: £600 - £644
Clearance required: BPSS + SC
Nationality requirement: UK Passport Holder
Location: Remote (on-site once a month)

Job Description:
The AI Engineer role will be responsible for working within a Product squad to design, build and deliver GenAI and Agentic AI products.
The individual must have hands-on experience developing production-grade GenAI/Agentic AI solutions using LLMs, RAG and agentic workflow technologies. The role requires strong Python software engineering skills alongside practical experience designing reliable, secure and maintainable AI-enabled applications.

Skills required

Strong Python software engineering experience
Hands-on experience developing GenAI / LLM applications
Hands-on experience designing and implementing Agentic AI workflows
Experience with LangGraph
Strong understanding of LLM workflow design, including state, routing, tools, structured outputs and human-in-the-loop patterns
Practical experience designing and implementing RAG architectures
Experience with document ingestion, chunking, embeddings and vector/semantic search
Experience with prompt engineering and structured LLM outputs
Experience with AI/LLM evaluation, testing and quality assurance
Understanding of guardrails, grounding, hallucination mitigation and AI assurance
Experience building and integrating APIs and backend services
Strong understanding of software engineering principles, automated testing, code review and maintainable application design
Experience handling LLM and agent failure scenarios, retries, error handling and recovery
Understanding of observability and tracing for GenAI/Agentic AI applications
Azure AI & Cloud Services: Hands-on experience building and deploying AI solutions on Azure, including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure AI Foundry, Cosmos DB, Redis, Azure Monitor/Application Insights, Managed Identity and Key Vault.

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