Artificial Intelligence Engineer

RedCompass Labs; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Group Income Protection

Pension

Dental Insurance

28 days annual holiday

Job summary

RedCompass Labs in Manchester is seeking an experienced AI Engineer to turn research into production-grade, client-facing AI solutions. You will design, build, and scale multi-agent workflows and secure backend services deployed in Azure.

You will work with product managers and domain experts to translate complex requirements into impactful features, applying MLOps practices, containerization, and modern AI tooling to advance payments modernization.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with proven expertise developing and deploying production‑grade systems.
• Experience in modern AI, agentic software development, and use of LLMs.
• Strong proficiency in Python/Typescript.
• Understanding 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

4+ years exp

AI / LLMs

Python/TypeScript

RAG / embeddings

Cloud-native / containers

Learning mindset

T-shaped engineer

Tools

FastAPI

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

Manchester, 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.

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 acquiring new technical skills, and delivering impactful AI solutions.

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with proven expertise developing and deploying production‑grade systems.
• Experience in modern AI, agentic software development, and use of LLMs.
• Strong proficiency in either Python/Typescript.
• Understanding 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

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.