Senior AI Engineer - Developer Productivity (Hybrid)

Lorien; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Lorien in Manchester is seeking a Senior AI Engineer focused on Developer Productivity. The role is hybrid (2 days in the office) and hands-on, delivering tooling, workflows, and evidence-based AI improvements across real codebases.

You will work with LLM APIs, agent workflows, CI/CD, testing and observability to help engineers move faster while maintaining quality. This is not model-building; it's practical engineering that proves what works.

Qualifications

• Strong production software experience.
• Hands-on with LLM APIs and agent workflows.
• Experience with Git platforms and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Build tooling and workflows to integrate AI into real codebases.
• Measure and report evidence-based results for AI work.
• Collaborate with engineers to improve developer productivity using AI.

Skills

Software engineering

CI/CD

LLM APIs

Python

SQL

Git workflows

Testing

Observability

Code review

Evidence-based

Tools

Bitbucket

Jenkins/Harness

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

FastAPI

Job description

Lorien in Manchester is seeking a Senior AI Engineer focused on Developer Productivity. The role is hybrid (2 days in the office) and hands-on, delivering tooling, workflows, and evidence-based AI improvements across real codebases.

You will work with LLM APIs, agent workflows, CI/CD, testing and observability to help engineers move faster while maintaining quality. This is not model-building; it's practical engineering that proves what works.