Senior AI Engineer – End-to-End AI Systems (Contract), Hybrid UK

Humand Talent; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 129,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Humand Talent in the UK seeks a Senior AI Engineer to design, build and deploy complex AI systems from end to end. Hybrid work across Oxfordshire and London is available, with a 6-month initial contract and immediate start.

You will take genuine technical ownership and shape the direction of large-scale AI in production. Role focuses on Python production engineering, multi-agent architectures, LLM/VLM integration, RAG and multimodal search, with deployments spanning cloud, on-prem and offline

Qualifications

• Strong Python and production software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own AI systems from architecture through to production.
• Build multi-agent and agentic workflows, not just integrate APIs.
• Work with LLMs, VLMs, RAG, retrieval, memory and tool calling.
• Engineer for reliability, latency, scale and failure handling.
• Build large-scale multimodal search and retrieval pipelines.
• Deploy across cloud, on-prem and offline environments.
• Set technical direction and influence engineering standards.

Skills

Python

Production software engineering

Agentic AI

Multi-agent systems

LLM/VLM integration

Docker

Git

AWS

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

Haystack

Job description

Humand Talent in the UK seeks a Senior AI Engineer to design, build and deploy complex AI systems from end to end. Hybrid work across Oxfordshire and London is available, with a 6-month initial contract and immediate start.

You will take genuine technical ownership and shape the direction of large-scale AI in production. Role focuses on Python production engineering, multi-agent architectures, LLM/VLM integration, RAG and multimodal search, with deployments spanning cloud, on-prem and offline