Lead AI Engineer: Agentic AI & Production ML

NXA Talent LTD; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NXA Talent LTD is seeking an experienced AI Engineer in London with strong expertise in Azure OpenAI, LangGraph, and multi-agent architectures. The role focuses on designing and delivering production-grade AI solutions within a large-scale retail environment, with a hybrid working arrangement in London.

You will design agentic AI systems, build scalable microservices, and lead the deployment of AI services to production.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and delivering production-grade AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Agentic AI solutions with multi-step reasoning and autonomous action.
• Architect multi agent systems and scalable AI microservices.
• Build AI applications using Python and Azure OpenAI technologies.
• Develop RAG architectures and integrate vector search solutions.
• Implement orchestration workflows using Semantic Kernel and LangGraph.
• Integrate enterprise systems, APIs and tools using MCP and similar frameworks.
• Establish AI governance, security, safety and responsible AI practices.
• Lead the deployment of AI services into production environments.
• Collaborate with architects, product teams and stakeholders to deliver AI-driven solutions.
• Optimize performance, scalability, cost and latency of LLM-based applications.

Skills

AI architecture

Python development

Production-grade AI

Cloud AI

REST API design

Troubleshooting production

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Foundry

Azure AI Search

Semantic Kernel

LangGraph

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Docker

Kubernetes

MLOps

LLMOps

Vector databases

Embeddings

Semantic search

Job description

NXA Talent LTD is seeking an experienced AI Engineer in London with strong expertise in Azure OpenAI, LangGraph, and multi-agent architectures. The role focuses on designing and delivering production-grade AI solutions within a large-scale retail environment, with a hybrid working arrangement in London.

You will design agentic AI systems, build scalable microservices, and lead the deployment of AI services to production.