Applied AI Software Engineer — Production-Grade LLMs & RAG

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS); Warrington; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) in Warrington, United Kingdom, seeks an experienced Software Engineer for its Applied AI Practice Team. You will design, build, and deploy production-ready AI systems, focusing on multi-agent workflows, RAG pipelines, and fine-tuned LLMs to deliver measurable business impact.

You will implement end-to-end AI solutions, ensure reliability and scalability of web and backend apps, and establish robust evaluation and monitoring pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years building production-grade AI systems.
• Proven track record delivering AI agents, RAG pipelines, or fine-tuned models with measurable business impact.
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks and truth sets for applied AI quality assurance.

Responsibilities

• Build at the frontier: Design and implement end-to-end AI systems, including multi-agent workflows, retrieval pipelines, and customized LLMs.
• Engineer full-stack solutions: Deliver web and backend applications that integrate AI with reliability and scalability.
• Raise the bar on evaluation: Develop rigorous truth sets and monitoring pipelines to quantify performance and outcomes.
• Prototype rapidly: Translate research concepts into production-grade systems through fast iteration and testing.
• Shape best practices: Contribute to internal standards for applied AI development and deployment at scale.

Skills

Agent frameworks

LLM orchestration

RAG pipelines

Fine-tuning models

Full-stack engineering

MLOps

Information retrieval

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Vercel AI SDK

LangChain

Embeddings

Vector databases

CI/CD

Job description

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) in Warrington, United Kingdom, seeks an experienced Software Engineer for its Applied AI Practice Team. You will design, build, and deploy production-ready AI systems, focusing on multi-agent workflows, RAG pipelines, and fine-tuned LLMs to deliver measurable business impact.

You will implement end-to-end AI solutions, ensure reliability and scalability of web and backend apps, and establish robust evaluation and monitoring pipelines.