About this role
Salary: £130,000 - 150,000 per year
Requirements: Strong Python proficiency for production-grade AI development, with hands-on experience across LlamaIndex, LangChain and LangGraph.Proven track record building and scaling RAG systems; Graph-RAG exposure is a distinct advantage.Practical experience with model adaptation techniques such as prompting, fine-tuning, instruction tuning or knowledge distillation.Solid grounding in evaluation and experimentation methodology, with a focus on correctness, faithfulness and robustness.Demonstrable experience owning the technical design and delivery of complex AI, ML or data-driven systems in live production, ideally within a large or multi-division organisation.Senior engineering leadership or Head of AI-level background, with the ability to balance rapid experimentation with disciplined production delivery and communicate clearly with executive stakeholders including the COO, CEO and Technology leads. Responsibilities: Lead the design and deployment of a market-leading RAG conversational agent working with a large, complex proprietary dataset.Partner with product managers, content managers and senior stakeholders to design, develop, deploy and optimise state-of-the-art AI, ML, LLM and GenAI solutions against business and user requirements.Optimise LLMs, datasets and agent workflows to the highest quality standards, detecting and mitigating hallucinations and output errors.Deploy and maintain RAG architecture and LLM pipelines within cloud environments.Optimise data chunking and text embeddings for optimal semantic search across a large, specialist corpus.Track the competitive landscape and stay current with technological advancements in GenAI.Monitor and optimise agent and model latency and performance.Analyse utilisation and user feedback to identify experience-optimisation opportunities, and report findings to stakeholders.Educate and mentor engineering staff and the broader business. Technologies: AIBusiness IntelligenceCloudLLMPython More:
We are a large, award-winning international services group recognised across business intelligence, compliance and consultancy. This is a once-in-a-career opportunity to take ownership of our AI agenda, reporting directly to C-suite leadership and shaping the strategic direction of our AI capability at a pivotal moment in our growth. You will work on our proprietary AI product and have full autonomy to build and shape the AI function, backed by a world-class leadership team with a clear, ambitious AI roadmap. The role is based in Manchester and includes a car allowance and bonus scheme.
last updated 29 week of 2026