AI Engineer - Build Production ML & Automation

Currys; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave + BH

Life Assurance

Employee discounts on Tech

Job summary

Currys London Campus at Waterloo is hiring a full-time AI/ML engineer to design and deliver real-world AI solutions across stores, supply chain and contact centres. You’ll work with product managers to translate business needs into practical AI features, from prototyping to production, applying modern LLM and agent frameworks with a focus on reliability and security.

You’ll join a collaborative engineering community that values curiosity, continuous learning and cross-functional teamwork.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering foundations with real experience delivering working solutions in a team.
• Proficiency in Python and writing maintainable code.
• Experience with APIs, services, version control and testing.
• Evidence of AI work through personal projects or starter roles.
• Understanding of ML concepts like prompting, embeddings and model behavior.
• Curiosity and problem-solving to learn quickly in applied AI.
• Ability to collaborate in an agile environment with product teams.
• Exposure to Databricks, Azure AI services or similar cloud AI platforms beneficial.
• Experience with agent frameworks or orchestration tools beneficial.
• Knowledge of data platforms like SQL or Spark and AI integration beneficial.
• Engineering experience in software, data or ML with real-world delivery.
• Proficiency in Python and production-quality code.
• Familiarity with APIs, services and modern dev practices like version control and testing.
• Early evidence of AI/LLM work via personal projects or starter tools.
• Degree in CS, Engineering, AI/ML, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Build AI solutions and agents that improve productivity and decision-making across the business
• Create and iterate on prototypes using modern LLM and agent frameworks
• Help take AI features into production, working with senior engineers to meet reliability and security needs
• Contribute to data preparation and feature engineering for AI use cases
• Write clean, well-tested code that follows Currys engineering standards
• Monitor AI solutions in production, tracking quality, performance and cost
• Troubleshoot issues and improve implementations based on feedback and metrics
• Document your work clearly so solutions can be supported and scaled by the wider team
• Learn continuously and bring new ideas, tools and techniques to the team

Skills

Python

APIs & testing

LLM & AI

Team collaboration

Agile experience

SQL & Spark

Problem solving

Curiosity

Data platforms

OpenAI APIs

Education

CS/Engineering/AI/ML degree

Tools

Databricks

Azure AI

OpenAI APIs

Codex

Cursor

Spark

Job description

Currys London Campus at Waterloo is hiring a full-time AI/ML engineer to design and deliver real-world AI solutions across stores, supply chain and contact centres. You’ll work with product managers to translate business needs into practical AI features, from prototyping to production, applying modern LLM and agent frameworks with a focus on reliability and security.

You’ll join a collaborative engineering community that values curiosity, continuous learning and cross-functional teamwork.