Senior Software AI Engineer (Hybrid Contract)

Deloitte (UK); Alabama; Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 221,000; Part time

Job summary

Deloitte is seeking a hands-on Software AI Engineer (contract) to design, build and support production-grade AI agent solutions for a Financial Services client. You will develop Python services, agent orchestration, secure integrations and retrieval pipelines in a cloud-native environment.

The role requires strong software fundamentals and practical experience building LLM-based applications; travel to Deloitte offices in the UK is required, with a 2-month engagement starting ASAP in November

Qualifications

• 4+ years software engineering experience, preferably from Financial Services background.
• Strong Python skills plus experience in Java, TypeScript or SQL; able to review, debug and improve production code.
• Experience building LLM applications using prompting, tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and evaluation techniques.
• Experience building and consuming APIs and event-driven services with secure integration of enterprise data sources.
• AWS engineering experience including containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, application resilience and security.
• Experience with Apache Spark or similar data-processing frameworks and large structured datasets.
• Sound judgement when using AI-assisted development tools, including validation of outputs for correctness, performance, security and data sensitivity.
• Experience with MCP servers, agent orchestration, task queues, Databricks, OpenTelemetry or AG-UI.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a secure, scalable copilot capability that orchestrates agent-based workflows across enterprise systems and supports controlled user interaction.
• Build the data and machine-learning foundations that enable the copilot to provide grounded answers and intelligent recommendations.
• Establish the engineering controls required to make AI agents reliable, measurable and safe for production use

Skills

Python

Java

TypeScript

SQL

LLM applications

APIs

AWS

Kubernetes

Spark

OpenTelemetry

Tools

MCP servers

Databricks

AG-UI

CI/CD

Job description

Deloitte is seeking a hands-on Software AI Engineer (contract) to design, build and support production-grade AI agent solutions for a Financial Services client. You will develop Python services, agent orchestration, secure integrations and retrieval pipelines in a cloud-native environment.

The role requires strong software fundamentals and practical experience building LLM-based applications; travel to Deloitte offices in the UK is required, with a 2-month engagement starting ASAP in November