Maritime AI Engineer: Prototyping to Production (Azure)

RightShip; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthy Living Allowance

Annual incentive scheme

Job summary

RightShip in London is seeking an AI Engineer to join the Product team, building LLM-based applications and retrieval systems for maritime safety and risk intelligence. You’ll work with Product Managers to prototype solutions, evaluate them, and deliver production-ready code.

The role covers model selection, guardrails, testing, and integration with Azure OpenAI, Databricks, and the RightShip knowledge graph, with an emphasis on responsible AI and scalable deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years experience in AI/ML or software engineering with production-ready LLM-based apps.
• Strong Python and software engineering fundamentals: testing, packaging, version control, CI.
• Experience building agentic systems and RAG pipelines with LangGraph / LangChain.
• Comfort with ambiguous requirements and experimental problem solving.
• Excellent communication skills to explain trade-offs to non-technical colleagues.
• Experience designing and running LLM evaluations and monitoring production quality.
• Knowledge of embeddings, vector search and hybrid retrieval.
• Experience deploying AI workloads on Azure and Databricks.
• Experience with maritime, shipping, logistics or safety/compliance domains.

Responsibilities

• Gather and refine requirements with Product Managers to define AI solutions.
• Rapidly prototype and evaluate LLM-based apps, agents and retrieval pipelines.
• Propose architectures covering models, orchestration, data access, guardrails and latency trade-offs.
• Design production-ready evaluation suites and monitoring frameworks.
• Deliver production-grade code with tests, docs and observability; hand over to engineering teams.
• Build and maintain retrieval/embedding pipelines over maritime data and knowledge graphs.
• Apply Responsible AI practices: guardrails, bias assessment, and risk management alignment.
• Present results and recommendations to stakeholders across product and engineering.

Skills

Python programming

LLM-based applications

LangGraph / LangChain

CI/CD / testing

Experimentation

Effective communication

Evaluation design

Azure deployment

Databricks

Knowledge graphs

Maritime domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science / related field

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Databricks

Neo4j / Knowledge graphs

CI/CD tooling

Job description

RightShip in London is seeking an AI Engineer to join the Product team, building LLM-based applications and retrieval systems for maritime safety and risk intelligence. You’ll work with Product Managers to prototype solutions, evaluate them, and deliver production-ready code.

The role covers model selection, guardrails, testing, and integration with Azure OpenAI, Databricks, and the RightShip knowledge graph, with an emphasis on responsible AI and scalable deployments.