Senior AI Engineer - Maritime LLM & Retrieval Systems

RightShip; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

RightShip is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join our Product team in London. You will work with Product Managers to shape AI solutions, prototype LLM-based apps and retrieval pipelines, and design scalable architectures with guardrails and cost/latency considerations.

You will deploy on Azure, work with Databricks and LangGraph/LangChain, and deliver production‑ready code with robust evaluations. You should bring 5+ years in AI/ML or software engineering, strong Python, and experience with

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on AI/ML or software engineering experience with production‑grade LLM apps.
• Strong Python and software engineering fundamentals: testing, packaging, version control, CI/CD.
• Experience building agentic systems and RAG pipelines with LangGraph (and LangChain or similar).
• Experience designing and running LLM evaluations with datasets, metrics and monitoring.
• Knowledge of embeddings, vector search and hybrid retrieval.
• Experience deploying AI workloads on Azure (Azure OpenAI, AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, Functions or Container Apps).
• Comfortable in experimental settings with loosely defined requirements and evolving priorities.
• Excellent communication skills to explain trade-offs to non‑technical colleagues.
• Experience with Databricks (MLflow, Delta Lake, model serving).
• Experience with multi‑modal models and knowledge graphs; maritime domain exposure is a plus.
• Open‑source contributions or a public portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Gather and refine product requirements with Product Managers and translate them into candidate AI solutions with clear success criteria.
• Rapidly prototype and experiment with LLM-based applications, agents and retrieval pipelines.
• Propose and document architectures: model choice, orchestration, data access, guardrails, cost and latency trade-offs.
• Design and build AI evaluation suites, both offline and online, for production monitoring of quality.
• Produce production‑ready code with tests, docs and observability; hand over to engineering for productionisation.
• Build and maintain retrieval and embedding pipelines over maritime data and the RightShip knowledge graph.
• Apply Responsible AI practices: traceability, guardrails and bias assessment; align with AI risk framework.
• Present experimental results and recommendations to product, engineering and senior stakeholders.
• Contribute to AI tooling, patterns and standards; support code reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Stay abreast of new models/frameworks and assess which to adopt.

Skills

Python

AI/ML

LangGraph

LangChain

Azure

Databricks

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Data Science/Engineering

Tools

Azure OpenAI

AI Foundry

Azure AI Search

Databricks

Job description

RightShip is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join our Product team in London. You will work with Product Managers to shape AI solutions, prototype LLM-based apps and retrieval pipelines, and design scalable architectures with guardrails and cost/latency considerations.

You will deploy on Azure, work with Databricks and LangGraph/LangChain, and deliver production‑ready code with robust evaluations. You should bring 5+ years in AI/ML or software engineering, strong Python, and experience with