Senior AI Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Newport; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI consultancy is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join their dynamic team. The role involves building and optimising RAG pipelines, creating LLM integrations, and developing AI systems. Candidates should have a strong background in Python and experience with LLMs and agentic systems. This is a remote position open to applicants in the UK or Canada, offering a competitive salary up to £130,000.

Qualifications

• 3+ years' experience as a full-stack engineer.
• Proven track record with LLMs and RAG pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of modern ML deployment tools.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimise RAG pipelines and LLM integrations.
• Develop AI agent systems with tool chaining.
• Write clean and testable code that scales in production.

Skills

Python

LLMs

RAG pipelines

Containerisation

API design

Tools

Docker

AWS

React

Next.js

Job description

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Hiring: Senior AI Engineer (LLMs, Agents, RAG)
Location: Remote (UK or Canada)
Type: Full-time | Permanent
Salary: Up to £130,000 or $240,000 Canadian

Are you passionate about building real AI systems that get used in production? Interested in LLMs, RAG pipelines, and agentic software, with the freedom to make a real impact?

My client are a well-funded early-stage team helping enterprise clients in regulated sectors deploy scalable AI without overhauling their infrastructure. They focus on performance, maintainability, and fast iteration. No fluff, just outcomes. They're now looking for engineers who want to help shape that future.

What You'll Be Working On:

Hiring: Senior AI Engineer (LLMs, Agents, RAG)
Location: Remote (UK or Canada)
Type: Full-time | Permanent
Salary: Up to £130,000 or $240,000 Canadian

Are you passionate about building real AI systems that get used in production? Interested in LLMs, RAG pipelines, and agentic software, with the freedom to make a real impact?

My client are a well-funded early-stage team helping enterprise clients in regulated sectors deploy scalable AI without overhauling their infrastructure. They focus on performance, maintainability, and fast iteration. No fluff, just outcomes. They're now looking for engineers who want to help shape that future.

What You'll Be Working On:

• Building and optimising RAG pipelines including chunking, embeddings, and vector search

• Creating full LLM integrations using OpenAI, Hugging Face, and orchestration frameworks

• Developing robust AI agent systems with tool chaining and multi-step logic

• Building real-time frontend interfaces using React, Next.js, and Vercel AI SDK

• Containerising services using Docker and deploying to AWS (ECS, Lambda)

• Collaborating with researchers to productionise transformer models (e.g. PyTorch, HF)

• Using observability tools like Langfuse to monitor prompt and model performance

• Writing clean, modular, testable code that scales in production environments
  

What They're Looking For:

• 3+ years' experience as a full-stack engineer with strong Python skills

• Proven track record with LLMs, agentic systems, and RAG pipelines

• Experience with vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search

• Solid grasp of prompt engineering and LLM integration best practices

• Familiarity with containerisation, API design, and modern ML deployment tools
  

Bonus if:

• Experience with PyTorch or model fine-tuning

• Open-source contributions to LLM or AI infrastructure tools

• Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch for retrieval

• Familiarity with Terraform, GitHub Actions, or infrastructure automation

• Built doc processing pipelines involving PDFs, HTML, or structured data

• Interest in async workflows and distributed data processing

If you're ready to work on meaningful, high-impact AI problems in a fast-moving team, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply now or drop us a message to chat more.