Senior AI Solutions Engineer: Lead AI Workflows & Deployments

Ocho People; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocho People is seeking a Senior AI Solutions Engineer in the UK to design AI-driven workflows and agent pipelines on our core platform, including high-stakes defence and national security contexts.

You will own technical decisions end to end, translate customer problems into deployable solutions, mentor engineers, and partner with customers through discovery, PoC and live deployment, with direct access to founders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering, applied AI or solutions engineering.
• Strong Python and hands-on production experience with large language models.
• Practical experience with retrieval augmented generation and agent frameworks.
• Evidence of using AI development tooling as part of your daily working practice.
• Comfortable working directly with demanding external stakeholders.
• Eligible for UK security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI-driven workflows and agentic pipelines on the core platform.
• Translate ambiguous customer problems into deployable technical solutions.
• Own retrieval, prompting and orchestration design decisions end to end.
• Build evaluation harnesses that prove solution quality before anything reaches production.
• Partner with customers through discovery, proof of concept and live deployment.
• Feed recurring solution patterns back into the core product roadmap.
• Mentor engineers joining the Solutions Engineering function.
• Represent the technical story credibly to senior customer stakeholders.

Skills

5+ years exp

Python

LLMs

RAG (Retrieval-augmented)

Agent frameworks

AI tooling

UK security clearance

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

RAGAS

DeepEval

LangSmith

Job description

Ocho People is seeking a Senior AI Solutions Engineer in the UK to design AI-driven workflows and agent pipelines on our core platform, including high-stakes defence and national security contexts.

You will own technical decisions end to end, translate customer problems into deployable solutions, mentor engineers, and partner with customers through discovery, PoC and live deployment, with direct access to founders.