Senior AI Engineer — Generative AI & ML Specialist

Candidate Manager LTD; Letterkenny; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Health care

Training resources

Discounts within Tata network

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is seeking an experienced senior software engineer to drive AI, machine learning and Generative AI initiatives for a leading UK higher education client. You will write Python services, build ML models, and implement prompt workflows in a cloud-first environment.

You will own technical quality, perform peer reviews and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust AI solutions while adhering to development standards and Agile practices.

Qualifications

• 6-9 years of software engineering experience with strong hands-on Python development.
• Practical experience developing Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions.
• Experience with Scikit-learn, TensorFlow or PyTorch and LLM-based application development.
• REST API development, data processing libraries, Git, CI/CD, unit testing and performance optimisation.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI, Machine Learning and Generative AI components from approved requirements and technical specifications.
• Build, train, evaluate and optimise Machine Learning models using approved datasets and development standards.
• Develop Python services, APIs, automation components and reusable modules, including prompt and retrieval workflows.
• Perform data preparation, feature engineering, model validation, unit testing, debugging and defect resolution.
• Support deployment, monitoring and production issue resolution; maintain technical documentation and guide junior developers through peer reviews.

Skills

Python development

ML/Gen AI

REST API

Git

CI/CD

Unit testing

Agile delivery

Tools

Scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is seeking an experienced senior software engineer to drive AI, machine learning and Generative AI initiatives for a leading UK higher education client. You will write Python services, build ML models, and implement prompt workflows in a cloud-first environment.

You will own technical quality, perform peer reviews and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust AI solutions while adhering to development standards and Agile practices.