Senior Applied AI Engineer – Document AI

Trafigura Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Trafigura Group is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to grow our Document AI platform, delivering robust Python-based AI solutions for production in commodities trading. You will build agentic AI/LLM workflows and integrate with human processes to ensure reliable, scalable operations.

This hands-on IC role reports to the Document AI Lead within the Digital Transformation Team, a joint venture driving Trafigura's AI-powered evolution.

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of experience building production AI/ML systems.
• Modern Python proficiency with deep knowledge of the ecosystem (Pydantic, FastAPI, asyncio, type safety).
• Experience with modern AI frameworks (we currently favour Pydantic AI).
• Production experience maintaining human-in-the-loop systems and AI monitoring/observability
• Strong fundamentals in AI/ML evaluation frameworks.
• Experience building agentic systems including MCP, tool calling, memory systems, vector-based knowledge stores, guardrails
• In depth understanding of modern software design principles (e.g. microservices, event-driven architectures, domain driven design, object oriented programming, test driven development)
• In depth understanding of modern software development lifecycle (CI/CD, IaC, Containerisation)
• Practical experience with cloud engineering (preference for AWS)

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Python-based AI applications
• Build and maintain document workflows using LLMs and classical NLP
• Debug model performance issues, handle edge cases, and optimize system reliability
• Write comprehensive tests and implement monitoring for AI/ML systems

Skills

Production AI/ML systems

Python proficiency

AI frameworks

AI monitoring

Evaluation frameworks

Agentic systems

Software design principles

CI/CD

Cloud AWS

Tools

Pydantic

FastAPI

AWS

Containerisation

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Trafigura Group is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to grow our Document AI platform, delivering robust Python-based AI solutions for production in commodities trading. You will build agentic AI/LLM workflows and integrate with human processes to ensure reliable, scalable operations.

This hands-on IC role reports to the Document AI Lead within the Digital Transformation Team, a joint venture driving Trafigura's AI-powered evolution.