Senior AI Engineer - Reinsurance

Korn Ferry; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Korn Ferry is seeking an experienced AI/Software Engineer to identify opportunities for AI-driven automation and design, develop, and deploy AI-powered applications in production environments.

You will build solutions using LLMs, RAG, document processing and information extraction, and will partner with business stakeholders to understand challenges, own the full lifecycle of AI products from proof of concept to production, and develop testing, monitoring, and hallucination-detection frameworks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, AI Engineering or Machine Learning.
• Strong hands-on Python development experience.
• Experience building and deploying AI solutions into production environments.
• Commercial experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI.
• Strong understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
• Experience developing end-to-end AI products and services.
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices, including CI/CD and containerisation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities for AI-driven automation and process optimisation.
• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered applications in production environments.
• Build solutions leveraging LLMs, RAG, document processing & information extraction, AI agents, and automation.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand challenges and deliver scalable solutions.
• Own the full lifecycle of AI products from proof of concept through to production deployment.
• Develop frameworks for AI testing, evaluation, monitoring, and hallucination detection.
• Drive experimentation and innovation using modern AI engineering practices.

Skills

Python development

AI engineering

Machine Learning

Production deployments

LLMs

RAG

CI/CD

Containerisation

Problem-solving

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

End-to-end AI products

Tools

CI/CD

Containerisation

Job description

• Identify opportunities for AI-driven automation and process optimisation


• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered applications in production environments


• Build solutions leveraging:
  + Large Language Models (LLMs) + Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) + Document processing and information extraction + AI agents and agentic workflows + Classification and automation capabilities


• Partner with business and operational stakeholders to understand challenges and deliver scalable solutions


• Own the full lifecycle of AI products from proof of concept through to production deployment


• Develop frameworks for AI testing, evaluation, monitoring, and hallucination detection


• Drive experimentation and innovation using modern AI engineering practices
  5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, AI Engineering, Machine Learning, or related disciplines


• Strong hands-on Python development experience


• Experience building and deploying AI solutions into production environments


• Commercial experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI


• Strong understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures


• Experience developing end-to-end AI products and services


• Knowledge of software engineering best practices, including CI/CD and containerisation


• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities


• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills