About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements: Deep experience with Python and strong software engineering fundamentalsProduction machine learning / AI engineering experienceExperience with AWSExperience with agentic AI and LLM-based applicationsExperience with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)Experience with LangChain and/or LangGraphExperience with vector databases and retrievalExperience with MLOps and production deploymentExperience with AI evaluation, testing and observabilityExperience with AI governance, model risk and engineering controlsExperience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow or Scikit-learnExperience operating in complex, regulated or high-risk environments would be particularly valuable Responsibilities: Design robust, production-grade AI and ML systemsDrive adoption of Agentic AI across multiple engineering teamsDefine reusable engineering standards, architectures and implementation patternsDesign and evolve production RAG and retrieval architecturesEstablish effective LangGraph/LangChain patterns for agentic applicationsImprove AI evaluation, testing, observability and production monitoringDevelop guardrails, controls and approaches to hallucination and model riskSupport the move towards increasingly high-risk and high-complexity AI/ML use casesEstablish best practice across MLOps, CI/CD and deploymentInfluence senior engineers and technical stakeholders without direct line managementHelp engineering teams use AI-assisted development tools effectively within their workflows Technologies: Agentic AIAIAWSCI/CDSupportLLMMachine LearningMLOpsPyTorchPythonRAGTensorFlowCloud More:
We are a global technology-driven organisation scaling advanced AI capability across our UK engineering function. We have already invested heavily in enterprise AI platforms and Agentic AI frameworks, and we are now focused on driving adoption across engineering teams, establishing common engineering patterns, and enabling increasingly complex AI and ML solutions to operate safely and reliably in production. This is a senior hands-on Staff Engineer contract role based in London with 3 days per week on-site, an initial 6-month term, and a long-term programme roadmap. The contract is inside IR35 and offers a day rate of £800–1,200 inclusive. We are also actively adopting AI-assisted development tooling, including Claude, and are especially interested in engineers who are already using AI to improve their own software engineering workflows.
last updated 37 week of 2026