AI Engineer

Version 1; Newcastle upon Tyne; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly Profit Share

Career Development programmes

Flexible/remote working

Pension

Private Healthcare Cover

Life Assurance

Employee Discount scheme

Gym Discounts

Job summary

Version 1 is seeking a hands-on AI/ML Engineer to build, deploy, and optimize machine learning and generative AI solutions. You will develop production‑grade AI applications, integrate models into business systems, and support the full AI lifecycle.

The role requires strong Python/SQL, ML/deployment experience, and collaboration with architects, product managers, and engineering teams. Remote-friendly with UK focus.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in ML engineering or data science with production deployments.
• Experience deploying AI solutions including Gen AI apps and RAG systems.
• Strong Python and SQL proficiency, plus model evaluation skills.
• Hands-on with Scikit-learn, PyTorch or TensorFlow, and Hugging Face.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AI-powered applications and services.
• Train, fine-tune, evaluate, and deploy ML models.
• Develop feature engineering and evaluation pipelines.
• Implement model monitoring and cost-efficient inference.
• Build LLM-based apps, prompts, agents, and vector search workflows.
• Collaborate with architects, product managers, and engineers.

Skills

Python

SQL

Statistical concepts

Supervised learning

Unsupervised learning

Model evaluation

Feature engineering

Tools

Scikit-learn

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

MLflow

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Semantic Kernel

LangGraph

Job description

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We’re a core valuesdriven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you.

Job Description

We are seeking a hands‑on AI/ML Engineer to build, deploy, and optimize machine learning and Generative AI solutions. The role focuses on developing production‑grade AI applications, integrating AI models into business systems, and supporting the full AI development lifecycle. The ideal candidate is passionate about modern AI technologies, software engineering best practices, and delivering reliable AI solutions at scale.

Key Responsibilities

AI Application Development

• Design, build, and maintain AI-powered applications and services.
• Develop and deploy Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions.
• Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems and AI agents.
• Integrate foundation models and APIs into enterprise applications.
• Create reusable AI components and frameworks.

Machine Learning Engineering

• Train, fine‑tune, evaluate, and deploy ML models.
• Develop feature engineering and model evaluation pipelines.
• Implement model monitoring and performance tracking.
• Optimize model inference performance and cost efficiency.

Generative AI Engineering

• Develop LLM‑based applications and workflows.
• Build prompt templates, agent frameworks, and orchestration pipelines.
• Implement vector search and knowledge retrieval systems.
• Design evaluation frameworks for AI quality, safety, and reliability.
• Improve hallucination mitigation and response accuracy.

MLOps & Deployment

• Design and automate ML model training, validation, and retraining pipelines.
• Version and manage datasets, features, and model artefacts using tools such as MLflow or similar.
• Deploy and serve ML models via REST APIs or batch inference at scale on Databricks, Snowflake or similar.
• Monitor model performance in production, detecting drift and degradation.
• Manage feature stores and ensure data pipeline reliability for ML workloads.
• Implement experiment tracking and reproducibility across the model lifecycle.

Collaboration

• Work closely with Solution Architects, Product Managers, and Engineering Teams.
• Participate in code reviews and technical design discussions.
• Support testing, deployment, and ongoing optimisation activities.

Qualifications

Programming & Engineering

• Strong proficiency in:
  • Python
  • SQL
• Experience with:
  • Scikit-learn
  • PyTorch and/or TensorFlow
  • Hugging Face
  • Main AI services from leading cloud service and model providers
  • Supervised and unsupervised learning
  • Model evaluation
  • Feature engineering
  • Statistical concepts

Generative AI

• Practical experience building:
  • RAG systems
  • AI agents
  • LLM‑powered applications
  • Vector search solutions
• Familiarity with:
  • LangChain
  • LlamaIndex
  • Semantic Kernel
  • LangGraph

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Experience with AWS.
• Docker and containerization.
• Kubernetes (preferred).
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

Professional Experience

• 3+ years in ML engineering or data science, with demonstrable experience deploying models to production and building Gen AI applications including RAG systems, LLM integration, or agentic workflows
• Demonstrated experience delivering AI solutions into production environments.

Additional Information

Why Version 1?

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance‑Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call‑Out’ platform.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.

Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer.

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring.

We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact [e-mail] at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.

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