Senior AI Engineer - Build AI for Impact & Growth

Burendo; Leeds; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Burendo, a Leeds-based AI-focused consultancy, seeks engineers to advance AI-enabled products across client work and internal builds. You will work across the software lifecycle, from design to delivery, focusing on practical, scalable AI solutions and robust testing.

We value pragmatic delivery, collaboration, and continual learning. The role emphasizes hands-on coding in Python/JavaScript, cloud experience, and live product support within a consultancy environment.

Qualifications

• Fundamental coding experience in two or more: Python, JavaScript/Node.js, C#, Java.
• Experience engineering AI-enabled products with LLMs, agents, APIs and data pipelines.
• Experience designing RAG architectures with retrieval, chunking, grounding.
• Cloud environment experience (AWS or Azure).
• Infrastructure as code: Terraform or equivalent.
• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLabCI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
• Experience supporting a live product and databases including vector stores.
• Experience testing AI output quality with datasets and automated scoring.

Skills

Python

JavaScript / Node.js

AI architectures

Cloud environments

CI / CD pipelines

Data pipelines

Vector databases

Testing AI output

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLabCI

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

AWS / Azure

Job description

Burendo, a Leeds-based AI-focused consultancy, seeks engineers to advance AI-enabled products across client work and internal builds. You will work across the software lifecycle, from design to delivery, focusing on practical, scalable AI solutions and robust testing.

We value pragmatic delivery, collaboration, and continual learning. The role emphasizes hands-on coding in Python/JavaScript, cloud experience, and live product support within a consultancy environment.