Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Elevation Recruitment Group; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevation Tech & Transformation in Sheffield is seeking an AI Engineer to help define and deliver the firm's AI roadmap, collaborating across IT, Data Operations and business stakeholders to shape a practical AI strategy and tangible value. You will design AI applications, assistants and workflow automation, create RAG solutions from internal data, and identify opportunities where AI reduces complexity and boosts efficiency.

The role combines hands-on delivery with strategic influence.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering AI projects in a commercial setting.
• Ability to define AI roadmaps and strategy.
• Experience with AI agents, LLMs, RAG or agentic AI frameworks beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Develop the organisation's AI roadmap and help shape its long-term AI strategy.
• Designing and building AI applications, assistants and workflow automation tools.
• Creating Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions using internal business data.
• Working with stakeholders to identify opportunities where AI can reduce complexity and improve efficiency.
• Designing scalable AI architecture and governance frameworks.
• Integrating AI solutions with existing business systems including PostgreSQL, ERP, CRM and Microsoft technologies.
• Helping introduce AI best practice across the wider technology team through knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Skills

AI engineering

Stakeholder collaboration

LLMs & AI systems

Problem solving

Education

Master's in AI/CS

Tools

Python

SQL

OpenAI API

Anthropic API

N8N

AWS

Job description

North Sheffield | Hybrid (3 days onsite) | Permanent

Artificial Intelligence is changing the way businesses operate. This is your opportunity to be the person who helps shape that journey.

Elevation Tech & Transformation are recruiting an AI Engineer to join a growing manufacturing business that has already begun experimenting with AI and is now ready to take the next step.

Rather than inheriting an established AI function, you'll have the opportunity to help define it.

Working closely with IT, Data Operations and stakeholders across the business, you'll build the AI roadmap, identify high-value use cases and deliver practical AI solutions that improve business processes, support decision making and create genuine operational value.

This is a rare opportunity to influence strategy while remaining hands-on with the latest AI technologies.

What you'll be doing

• Developing the organisation's AI roadmap and helping shape its long-term AI strategy
• Designing and building AI applications, assistants and workflow automation tools
• Creating Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions using internal business data
• Working with stakeholders to identify opportunities where AI can reduce complexity and improve efficiency
• Designing scalable AI architecture and governance frameworks
• Integrating AI solutions with existing business systems including PostgreSQL, ERP, CRM and Microsoft technologies
• Helping introduce AI best practice across the wider technology team through knowledge sharing and collaboration

Current AI projects include

• Replacing an existing rules-based engineering chatbot with an AI-powered assistant
• Building AI-powered reporting and analytics capabilities
• Creating workflow automation tools
• Developing customer-facing AI solutions
• Exploring new AI use cases across operations, warranty and aftersales

Current technologies include:

• Python
• SQL
• OpenAI & Anthropic APIs
• N8N
• AWS

Experience with AI agents, LLMs, RAG or agentic AI frameworks would be highly beneficial.

About you

You might already be working as an AI Engineer with commercial delivery experience, or you could be an early-career engineer or recent Master's graduate who has built impressive AI projects and is looking for an opportunity to make a real impact.

Most importantly you'll be someone who is genuinely passionate about AI, enjoys staying on top of emerging technologies and wants to help shape how a business adopts AI over the coming years.

Strong communication skills are essential as you'll work closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across the organisation.

Please note this role does not offer sponsorship therefore interested candidates must hold full Right to Work in the UK.

This role is site based in North Sheffield 3 days per week, with 2 days from home.

This isn't a role where you'll inherit someone else's roadmap. You'll help create it.

You’ll have the freedom to influence technology choices, shape AI strategy and work with senior stakeholders to deliver solutions that genuinely change how the business operates.