Senior AI Engineer: Scale Responsible AI & ML Solutions

Kainos; Hurley; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Kainos is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to deliver advanced AI solutions across ML, generative and agentic AI. You'll drive modern AI frameworks, MLOps, and scalable cloud-native architectures in a fast-paced environment.

You will work closely with customers to translate business challenges into trustworthy AI, mentor junior engineers, and uphold responsible AI practices, ensuring high-quality, maintainable deliverables and continuous learning within the AI practice.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2.1 degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Statistics or similar field.
• Experience deploying modern AI/ML solutions into production, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), model evaluation and monitoring.
• Strong Python skills with experience in software engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, code reviews).
• Experience developing solutions at scale on cloud platforms (Azure & AWS), containerisation and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Expertise in data engineering for AI: handling large-scale, unstructured, multimodal data.
• Understanding of responsible AI principles, model interpretability, and ethical considerations.
• Strong interpersonal skills and team working.

Responsibilities

• Deliver advanced AI solutions leveraging ML, generative and agentic AI technologies.
• Drive adoption of modern AI frameworks, MLOps best practices and scalable cloud-native architectures.
• Collaborate with customers to translate business challenges into trustworthy AI solutions.
• Mentor junior developers and foster a culture of innovation, learning and engineering excellence.
• Ensure responsible AI practices and maintain model monitoring and evaluation.

Skills

Python

AI/ML deployment

CI/CD practices

Prompt engineering

Teamwork

Education

2.1 degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Statistics or similar

Tools

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Data engineering for AI

Job description

Kainos is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to deliver advanced AI solutions across ML, generative and agentic AI. You'll drive modern AI frameworks, MLOps, and scalable cloud-native architectures in a fast-paced environment.

You will work closely with customers to translate business challenges into trustworthy AI, mentor junior engineers, and uphold responsible AI practices, ensuring high-quality, maintainable deliverables and continuous learning within the AI practice.