Artificial Intelligence Engineer

RedCompass Labs; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Life Insurance

Group Income Protection

28 days annual holiday

7 days of sick leave paid

Up to 10% personal performance bonus

Job summary

RedCompass Labs is looking for an AI Engineer to transform research into production-ready AI solutions that revolutionize the payments industry. You will work in a hybrid model in London, facing sophisticated challenges and collaborating with product managers and UX designers to build impactful features.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of software engineering experience, strong skills in Python or Typescript, and an interest in AI technologies. Join us to drive change in payment solutions!

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in either Python or Typescript.
• Experience or strong interest in modern AI and agentic software development.

Responsibilities

• Design and build sophisticated multi-agent workflows for financial analysis.
• Develop secure, scalable backend services and APIs in Azure cloud.
• Collaborate with product managers and UX designers.

Skills

Python

Typescript

Modern AI

Agentic software development

MLOps

DevOps

Vector databases

Tools

FastAPI

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

London, hybrid (60% office presence per year after onboarding period)

About RedCompass Labs:

RedCompass Labs are payments experts focused exclusively on payments modernization. Over the last 23 years, RedCompass Labs has delivered 500+ projects across the world’s major payments schemes and platforms, including ISO 20022, SEPA, Swift, the Real-time Payments Network, and FedNow, ISO 20022 migrations, and FIS OPF, Finastra GPP, and ACI Worldwide.

Its flagship Payments Expert Agent is an AI solution purpose-built for the full payments modernization software development lifecycle. Trained on decades of deep payments expertise and more than 30,000 curated documents, the agent is certified to SOC 2 Type II.

RedCompass Labs supports clients from offices in London, Warsaw, Brussels, Miami, Boston, Toronto, and Pune. For more information, visit www.redcompasslabs.com.

Mission:

Imagine reducing a 14-day financial analysis task to just 2 hours. At RedCompass Labs, we don't just imagine-we've built it.

We're transforming the trillion-dollar payments industry through intelligent automation. At the heart of our mission is AnalystAccelerator.ai, our proprietary multi-agent AI platform built to accelerate complex analysis in global banking and compliance.

We’re seeking exceptional AI Engineers to join our foundational AI Engineering team. Your role: transform cutting‑edge research and prototypes into robust, production‑ready AI solutions. You'll tackle sophisticated challenges within a regulated, high‑stakes environment, developing scalable AI that augments human expertise.

As an AI Engineer, you would:

You will take proven concepts from research and turn them into production‑grade, client‑facing AI solutions:

• Design, build, and scale sophisticated multi‑agent workflows that automate complex financial analysis.
• Engineer robust Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines leveraging financial rulebooks, regulatory documentation, and client knowledge bases.
• Develop secure, scalable backend services and APIs (primarily Python/FastAPI) deployed in Azure cloud environments.
• Implement and enhance MLOps and DevOps practices, using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps pipelines, Docker containers, and Kubernetes orchestration.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, domain experts, and UX designers, converting complex business requirements into clear, impactful features.

Candidate Profile:

We’re seeking product‑centric engineers who thrive on complex challenges, rapidly acquire new technical skills, and deliver impactful AI solutions.

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with proven expertise developing and deploying production‑grade systems.
• Experience or strong interest in modern AI, agentic software development, and use of LLMs.
• Strong proficiency in either Python/Typescript.
• Understanding (or strong interest) in embedding models, retrieval‑based AI architectures (RAG), and vector databases.
• Familiarity with cloud‑native software development, containerization, and orchestration technologies.
• Commitment to learning and leveraging new technologies and AI tools rapidly and effectively.
• A ‘t‑shaped’ engineering mindset, and a willingness to stretch into tasks such as automation testing, devops, data engineering when the work needs it.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Previous experience with multi‑agent systems or complex workflow automation.
• Background in fintech, banking, payments, or compliance industries.
• Experience with high‑performance API frameworks (FastAPI).
• Core AI & LLMs: Python, LLM frameworks such as Autogen, LangChain, Pydantic‑AI, etc.
• Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) systems and MCP servers.
• Front‑end: TypeScript and React

What We Offer:

• Work on high‑impact financial technology projects that shape the future of payments and AI‑driven innovation
• Join a trust‑based, transparent, and collaborative culture where your voice matters and ideas influence outcomes
• Enjoy real ownership and autonomy in how you approach challenges, deliver work, and grow your expertise
• Be part of a diverse and inclusive global team across Canada, the UK, Europe, and Asia, where fairness and meritocracy guide every decision
• Collaborate daily with senior industry experts and leaders, accelerating your professional development
• Experience a human, respectful, and well‑structured recruitment and onboarding journey designed around clarity and mutual fit
• Grow through continuous learning, cross‑functional work, and exposure to both consulting and product‑building environments
• Join a company that values integrity, curiosity, and continuous improvement, and empowers you to make meaningful impact from day one.
• Up to 10% of annual earnings as a personal performance bonus
• Life insurance
• Group Income Protection
• Health Insurance for you and your family
• Dental Insurance for you and your family
• Pension: the pension is currently 4% employer and 4% employee. You also have the option to increase your contributions to your private pension, if you wish.
• 28 days annual holiday plus Public & Bank holidays
• 7 days of sick leave paid 100% per annum

RedCompass Labs is committed to promoting and supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace, ensuring fair and equitable treatment for all. This fuels innovation and enables us to work better together with each other and for our clients.