Production AI Engineer: LLM Systems for Enterprise (London)

AItoolnavio; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Benefits package

Pension

Private Medical Insurance

Flexible Time Off

Lunch provided

Job summary

Distyl AI in London seeks experienced AI Engineers to design and deploy production-grade AI systems powered by LLMs. You will work directly with Fortune 500 clients to transform complex workflows with cutting-edge AI, building end-to-end solutions and guiding adoption across large teams.

The role is hands-on, with opportunities to shape architecture, define tooling, and scale real-world AI products in mission-critical environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
• Experience deploying LLM-powered applications in production.
• Experience with modern LLM tooling such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Guardrails, MCP, or agent frameworks.
• Experience implementing RAG pipelines, tool use, or multi‑step AI workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build Production AI Systems: Design, develop, and deploy robust AI applications using LLMs, including prompt engineering, agent workflows, tool use, and full‑stack AI products
• Work Directly with Customers: Partner closely with enterprise stakeholders to understand complex problems and translate them into impactful AI solutions
• Lead System Architecture: Design scalable architectures for production AI systems, balancing performance, reliability, cost, and maintainability
• Develop Our Internal Platform: Contribute to Distillery, our internal LLM application platform, by building reusable infrastructure, tools, and workflows used across customer deployments
• Evaluate AI Systems Rigorously: Develop evaluation frameworks that measure model performance across accuracy, latency, cost, reliability, and safety
• Ship Production-Grade Systems: Ensure systems meet high standards for observability, reliability, security, and maintainability
• Raise the Engineering Bar: Improve development workflows, evaluation practices, and deployment strategies as our AI platform evolves

Skills

Python/TypeScript

LLM apps in production

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Guardrails

MCP

agent frameworks

Job description

Distyl AI in London seeks experienced AI Engineers to design and deploy production-grade AI systems powered by LLMs. You will work directly with Fortune 500 clients to transform complex workflows with cutting-edge AI, building end-to-end solutions and guiding adoption across large teams.

The role is hands-on, with opportunities to shape architecture, define tooling, and scale real-world AI products in mission-critical environments.