Senior AI Engineer

TN United Kingdom; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the UK is seeking a Senior AI Engineer for a 6-8 month contract outside IR35. The role involves building AI solutions, guiding junior engineers, and collaborating with clients. Ideal candidates will have hands-on experience with OpenAI and strong skills in LangChain and Pandas. Join us to make a real impact in the AI space!

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with OpenAI or Claude.
• Able to build APIs or custom data connectors.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve AI tools for real business problems.
• Guide junior engineers and review their work.
• Work closely with clients to deliver AI solutions.

Skills

OpenAI

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Pandas

API Development

Tools

PyMuPDF

pdfplumber

Streamlit

Gradio

Azure AI Foundry

Vertex AI

SageMaker

Job description

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Senior AI Engineer – 6- 8 Months Outside IR35

We’re looking for an AI Engineer to help build and deliver real-world AI solutions for clients. You’ll work on live projects, support junior team members, and help create a repeatable approach we can use for future work.

What You’ll Do:

• Build and improve AI tools for real business problems (e.g., reconciling data, extracting info from documents).
• Guide junior engineers and review their work.
• Create simple playbooks and best practices the team can follow.
• Work closely with clients and teammates to deliver working AI solutions.

What We’re Looking For:

• Hands-on experience with OpenAI or Claude.
• Strong skills in LangChain or LlamaIndex.
• Advanced knowledge of Pandas.
• Experience with PyMuPDF or pdfplumber for working with PDFs.
• Able to build APIs or custom data connectors.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Streamlit or Gradio.
• Familiarity with AI platforms like Azure AI Foundry, Vertex AI, or SageMaker.

Straightforward, practical, and collaborative – if that sounds like you, we’d love to talk.