2631 IT & Software Developer jobs in the UK
Senior AI Engineer
£100,000 - 100,000
Bright Purple Resourcing
Reading Station footbridge, Reading
£100,000 - 100,000
Requirements
Must:
- Proven Python engineering background, delivering clean, tested, production-ready code.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM/GenAI solutions in production (not just POCs or notebooks).
- Strong working knowledge of RAG patterns, agentic frameworks, vector databases, and embedding models.
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, and guardrail design (hallucination mitigation, prompt injection defense, content safety).
- Experience with cloud-native deployment; Azure preferred, including Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
- Solid grasp of LLMOps, including versioning, tracing, monitoring, cost management, and responsible AI.
- Consultative and client-ready communication skills, comfortable translating ambiguous business problems into AI solutions.
Technologies
AI
CI/CD
FastAPI
LLM
Langfuse
Marketing
Responsibilities
- Designing and building production LLM and GenAI solutions in Python from prototype through architecture to deployment.
- Implementing advanced RAG pipelines, hybrid search, re-ranking, query rewriting, context compression, evaluation, and grounding.
- Working with vector stores such as Azure AI Search, Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, and Chroma, tuning embedding models for enterprise data.
- Building agentic systems using frameworks like LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and AutoGen tool use.
- Integrating foundation models via Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, and open-weight model endpoints (Llama, Mistral, Claude, GPT family).
- Applying prompt engineering, guardrails, evaluation, and observability using tools like LangSmith, Langfuse, Ragas, promptfoo, and Azure AI Content Safety.
- Productionizing solutions with FastAPI, async Python, Pydantic, Docker, and Kubernetes, deployed into Azure-native infrastructure.
- Partnering with data engineers, solution architects, and advisory consultants on end-to-end AI programs.
- Engaging directly with senior client stakeholders to shape solution direction.
Description
We are a multi-award-winning UK consultancy leading one of the fastest-growing enterprise AI teams. Our AI practice has scaled rapidly through strategic acquisitions and has a strong delivery pipeline across commercial, central government, and defense clients. We offer a competitive compensation package, including a strong base salary and bonus opportunities, generous annual leave, comprehensive health support, family-first policies, and a flexible, trust-based working environment. Our culture consistently ranks among the best in UK tech consulting, providing real ownership and real impact with clear pathways into senior technical leadership.
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