Production AI Engineer: LLMs, RAG & Agents

develop; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

develop is seeking an experienced AI Engineer / LLM Engineer to design and build production-ready AI applications, focusing on Generative AI, LLMs, RAG and agent-based workflows. This is about turning cutting-edge AI into reliable, scalable systems for real-world use.

The role requires hands-on work with Python or other modern languages, production APIs, data pipelines and cloud platforms, plus a focus on observability, reliability and guardrails in distributed environments.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with generative AI, large language models and production systems.
• Experience designing AI applications, LLM integrations and agent workflows.
• Knowledge of vector databases, knowledge graphs or similar data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade AI applications across LLMs, RAG and agents.
• Develop and maintain production APIs, data pipelines and cloud deployments.
• Monitor AI systems for reliability, latency, cost and safety.

Skills

Generative AI

Python

RAG

AI agents

Vector databases

Production APIs

AI monitoring

LangChain / SDKs

Tools

OpenAI SDK

LangSmith

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

develop is seeking an experienced AI Engineer / LLM Engineer to design and build production-ready AI applications, focusing on Generative AI, LLMs, RAG and agent-based workflows. This is about turning cutting-edge AI into reliable, scalable systems for real-world use.

The role requires hands-on work with Python or other modern languages, production APIs, data pipelines and cloud platforms, plus a focus on observability, reliability and guardrails in distributed environments.