Freelance AI Engineer

Elsewhen; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy based in London is seeking an AI Engineer to join their team. This role involves building LLM-powered systems and exploring multi-agent architectures. The position offers a remote-first work environment, with opportunities for hands-on experience in GenAI. You will collaborate with engineers and product managers to develop AI-driven solutions, ensuring clear documentation and effective communication within a collaborative team.

Qualifications

• Background in Python AI/ML Engineering or Backend Engineering with GenAI applications.
• Hands-on experience building solutions using LLMs and Agentic architectures.

Responsibilities

• Experiment with POCs to find solutions using Large Language Models.
• Build and deploy LLM-based solutions using RAG.
• Design and optimise APIs using Python and Flask.

Skills

Python

AI/ML Engineering

Collaboration

Communication

Tools

GCP

AWS

Flask

FastAPI

Terraform

SQL

Job description

AI Engineer

About Elsewhen:

Elsewhen, a London-based consultancy, designs digital products and services for clients like Spotify, Google, Inmarsat, and Zego. Over the past decade, we have built a workplace prioritising impact, drive, openness, and friendliness. We value outcomes over hours and agility over rigid processes. If you’re a Python Engineer with an interest in AI, this is a great opportunity to gain hands-on GenAI experience while working on real-world projects, with the support and training needed to grow your GenAI skills.

We’re looking for an AI engineer to join our biggest project and help bring LLM capabilities into our existing product. You will dive into AI engineering, building LLM powered systems and exploring multi-agent architectures within an enterprise organisation.

Work Environment:

• Remote-first setup: Fully remote work with the option to use a WeWork membership for those who prefer occasional office access.
• Join our team:https://www.elsewhen.com.

What You’ll Do:

• Experiment with POCs to find solutions for real-world problems using Large Language Models.
• Collaborate on AI-driven projects, working alongside engineers, product managers and AI specialists while maintaining clear documentation
• Build and deploy Agentic LLM-based solutions with LangGraph.
• Familiar with different multi agent system patterns
• Build and deploy LLM-based solutions using RAG
• Design and optimise APIs using Python and Flask to serve AI solutions.
• Deploy and manage AI applications on Vertex and other Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services using Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Build and optimise data pipelines for vector search and knowledge retrieval using Vector databases and embedding models.

What We’re Looking For:

• Background in Python AI/ML Engineering or Backend Engineering with GenAI applications
• Solid understanding of the Python standard library and modern Python coding, testing, debugging and automation techniques
• Hands-on experience building solutions using LLMs and Agentic architectures with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or LangGraph.
• Experience working with vector databases for embedding and indexing.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Strong experience with API design and frameworks like FastAPI or Flask
• Solid experience with relational databases and SQL
• Interest in expanding your knowledge into GenAI and machine learning
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well in a collaborative team environment

Nice to have:

• Experience with GCP
• Experience with data-intensive projects into production
• Experience with Machine Learning
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines

Other Key Details:

• Outside IR35
• Fully remote (UK based)
• Full time
• 10 week contract, covering 5 sprints
• 19th May start date