Staff AI Engineer: Lead Scalable GenAI & RAG Solutions

Cavendish Professionals; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cavendish Professionals is seeking a Staff AI Engineer (AI Specialist) to shape how AI is engineered across one of the UK's largest technology organisations. This hands-on, cross-functional role involves building reusable AI patterns, accelerating delivery, and establishing responsible AI guardrails across multiple domains.

You will work with engineering teams to solve complex AI problems, evaluate new models and technologies, and influence the AI platform roadmap with a focus on data

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building AI/GenAI solutions.
• Deep experience with LLMs and agentic AI systems.
• Experience with RAG, prompt engineering and/or fine-tuning.
• Experience with frameworks such as LangChain, Semantic Kernel or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of data engineering and how AI solutions interact with data platforms and pipelines.
• Experience operating within complex enterprise environments.
• A strong understanding of security, governance and responsible AI.

Responsibilities

• Define and develop reusable AI engineering patterns, accelerators and reference architectures.
• Build production-ready solutions across RAG, LLM integration, agentic AI and prompt engineering.
• Lead technical discovery and assess the feasibility and value of new AI opportunities.
• Work closely with engineering teams to solve complex AI problems and accelerate delivery.
• Help establish AI engineering standards, best practices and responsible AI guardrails.
• Evaluate emerging AI models, frameworks and technologies and determine where they can create real business value.
• Influence the AI and data platform roadmap across the organisation.
• Coach and enable other engineers, helping to raise the overall AI engineering capability.
• Work across multiple technology domains rather than being tied to a single product or team.

Skills

AI solutions

LLMs

RAG

data engineering

security & governance

Tools

LangChain

Semantic Kernel

Azure

Job description

Cavendish Professionals is seeking a Staff AI Engineer (AI Specialist) to shape how AI is engineered across one of the UK's largest technology organisations. This hands-on, cross-functional role involves building reusable AI patterns, accelerating delivery, and establishing responsible AI guardrails across multiple domains.

You will work with engineering teams to solve complex AI problems, evaluate new models and technologies, and influence the AI platform roadmap with a focus on data