Production AI & Data Engineer

Annapurna IT; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Annapurna IT is partnering with a client in London to hire a pragmatic Data & AI Engineer who will design, build, and operate AI‑powered applications and agents solving real business problems. You’ll collaborate with business stakeholders and engineers to embed domain knowledge into robust, production‑grade AI systems, enhancing workflows and decision making across teams.

The role emphasizes hands‑on delivery, system integration, and continuous improvement of AI capabilities in a fast‑moving

Qualifications

• Proficient in Python for production‑level AI services.
• End-to-end software delivery from design to deployment.
• Hands-on AI/LLM application development for real users.
• Experience with AI lifecycle: prototyping, data prep, evaluation, deployment.
• Ability to design evaluations and measure model quality and impact.
• Experience with multiple model providers and trade-offs.
• Prompt and agent design as testable software artifacts.
• Systems integration with APIs, data platforms, and unstructured data.
• Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation and workflow automation.
• Understanding model adaptation: prompting, retrieval, fine-tuning.
• Business and data understanding to translate workflows into AI solutions.

Skills

Python

Delivery lifecycle

AI/LLM apps

AI lifecycle

Evaluation metrics

Multiple models

Prompt design

Systems integration

Advanced AI

Model adaptation

Business understanding

Job description

Annapurna IT is partnering with a client in London to hire a pragmatic Data & AI Engineer who will design, build, and operate AI‑powered applications and agents solving real business problems. You’ll collaborate with business stakeholders and engineers to embed domain knowledge into robust, production‑grade AI systems, enhancing workflows and decision making across teams.

The role emphasizes hands‑on delivery, system integration, and continuous improvement of AI capabilities in a fast‑moving