Senior AI Deployment Engineer - Hybrid + Bonus

Oliver Bernard; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Oliver Bernard in London leads a cutting-edge AI deployment initiative within a leading UK wealth management platform. This senior role focuses on turning AI strategy into production capability with hands-on ownership.

You will own end-to-end AI engagements, build production-grade AI systems, and collaborate with Data Science, Engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions, all within a hybrid Central London setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ software engineering experience with meaningful production ownership.
• Proven experience building and shipping LLM-powered systems into production.
• Hands-on experience with LLM APIs, agents, orchestration, tool use, structured outputs and RAG.
• Strong understanding of LLM evaluation, regression testing and quality measurement.
• Experience implementing AI safety and guardrails, including PII, prompt injection and human-in-the-loop approaches.
• CI/CD, containerisation, monitoring and alerting for AI workloads.
• Strong data processing and pipeline fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Own AI engagements end-to-end, from identifying the problem through to production and handover.
• Build production-grade AI solutions, including LLMs, pipelines, agents and workflows.
• Develop and implement evals, guardrails, monitoring and cost/accuracy optimisation.
• Deploy ML and AI components into live customer-facing environments.
• Work closely with Data Science, Decisioning, Engineering and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Production ownership

LLM-powered systems

LLM APIs

AI safety

CI/CD

Containerisation

Monitoring & alerting

Data pipelines

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

LLM APIs

Agents

Orchestration

RAG

Job description

Oliver Bernard in London leads a cutting-edge AI deployment initiative within a leading UK wealth management platform. This senior role focuses on turning AI strategy into production capability with hands-on ownership.

You will own end-to-end AI engagements, build production-grade AI systems, and collaborate with Data Science, Engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions, all within a hybrid Central London setting.