AI Engineer, GenAI & LLMs for Client Delivery

Talan; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

BDP Plus – sabbatical option and cash

25 days holiday + bank holidays

5 days holiday buy/sell

Private medical insurance

Life cover

Cycle to work

Company pension (5% employer)

Employee assistance programme

Udemy for Business

Job summary

Talan Data x AI in the United Kingdom is seeking a hands-on AI Engineer to build and deliver AI solutions across client projects. You will apply machine learning techniques to analytics problems and work with GenAI, LLMs, and retrieval-augmented generation, turning well-defined designs into reliable software.

You will operate in delivery teams below senior data scientists, own meaningful workstreams within projects, mentor juniors, and collaborate with clients.

Qualifications

• Typically, 2–4 years' experience in data science, machine learning, or AI engineering.
• Solid grounding in core data science and machine learning.
• Practical experience with LLMs and generative AI, including prompting and RAG.
• Familiarity with how AI agents are built and orchestrated.
• Strong Python and common data/ML libraries; good engineering habits.
• Clear communicator and collaborative team player.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, and deploy AI and machine learning components within client projects to the standards and designs set by senior colleagues.
• Develop GenAI and LLM-based features (prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, and simple agentic workflows) alongside more traditional ML models.
• Deliver classical data science tasks (data preparation, feature engineering, model training, and evaluation) on projects that call for them.
• Translate solution designs into clean, well-documented, production-minded code.
• Contribute to model evaluation, testing, and monitoring.
• Support and guide very junior and graduate resources, reviewing their work and helping them grow.
• Help peers unblock technical problems and share knowledge across the team.
• Take part in client and team discussions and communicate your work clearly.

Skills

Python

Data science

GenAI

LLMs

ML deployment

Mentoring

Tools

Pandas

NumPy

scikit-learn

Job description

Talan Data x AI in the United Kingdom is seeking a hands-on AI Engineer to build and deliver AI solutions across client projects. You will apply machine learning techniques to analytics problems and work with GenAI, LLMs, and retrieval-augmented generation, turning well-defined designs into reliable software.

You will operate in delivery teams below senior data scientists, own meaningful workstreams within projects, mentor juniors, and collaborate with clients.