Senior AI Engineer — LLMs, RAG & NLP

Magno IT Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Magno IT Recruitment is seeking a Senior AI Engineer or Data Scientist to join an international team working on AI-powered knowledge discovery solutions. The role focuses on LLMs, RAG, and NLP to transform scientific content into actionable insights, with 1–2 days per week in Amsterdam or London and a 36-hour workweek.

You will collaborate with software engineers, product managers, and domain experts to deliver production-ready AI applications and scalable pipelines, while mentoring peers and

Qualifications

• Professional experience in AI, machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval, or a comparable quantitative discipline.
• Proven experience building AI-enabled products or intelligent software solutions.
• Solid knowledge of Large Language Models, including prompt engineering, model adaptation, evaluation, and responsible AI practices.
• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Experience working with large textual datasets and modern machine learning frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with semantic search, vector databases, hybrid retrieval methods, or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Familiarity with cloud-native development and software engineering best practices.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
• Experience coaching or mentoring other engineers is considered a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable AI solutions that improve how users search, analyze, and interact with large volumes of scientific and technical content.
• Combine machine learning, natural language processing, and modern large language models to develop production-ready applications that support knowledge discovery and decision-making.
• Working closely with software engineers, product managers, and domain specialists, you’ll translate complex business problems into reliable AI solutions.
• Design and develop (agentic) AI applications using machine learning, NLP, and generative AI technologies.
• Build intelligent retrieval and question-answering systems powered by Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Develop Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines to improve search quality and information accuracy.
• Create recommendation, ranking, and semantic search capabilities using modern AI frameworks.
• Integrate structured and unstructured knowledge sources, including metadata, taxonomies, and ontologies.
• Define evaluation strategies to measure model quality, reliability, and business impact.
• Develop maintainable Python-based solutions suitable for production environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the complete software development lifecycle.
• Mentor colleagues and contribute to technical best practices within the engineering team.

Skills

Python

NLP

AI/ML

RAG

LLMs

Information Retrieval

Vector Databases

Semantic Search

Team Collaboration

Tools

Vector Databases

ML Frameworks

Cloud-Native Development

Job description

Magno IT Recruitment is seeking a Senior AI Engineer or Data Scientist to join an international team working on AI-powered knowledge discovery solutions. The role focuses on LLMs, RAG, and NLP to transform scientific content into actionable insights, with 1–2 days per week in Amsterdam or London and a 36-hour workweek.

You will collaborate with software engineers, product managers, and domain experts to deliver production-ready AI applications and scalable pipelines, while mentoring peers and