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Contract AI Systems Architect
£39,000 - 70,500
Spectrum It Recruitment Limited
City Limits, Reading
£39,000 - 70,500
Requirements
Must:
- Proven experience building production-grade LLM systems
- Hands-on RAG implementation
- Experience with OpenAI and Anthropic APIs
- Strong vector database experience
- Backend architecture expertise (Node.js or Python)
- Experience designing structured JSON pipelines
- Experience working with offshore development teams
- B2B SaaS background would be highly desirable
Responsibilities
- Define the end-to-end AI pipelines
- Design structured JSON schemas for inputs and outputs
- Architect a robust RAG framework (vector database, chunking strategy etc)
- Design domain and geography-aware retrieval logic
- Develop modular, section-based prompt orchestration
- Enforce structured JSON outputs
- Implement hallucination controls and citation enforcement
- Introduce prompt version control
- Build section confidence scoring and validation logic
- Define ingestion structures for curated regulatory and incident sources
- Oversee embedding and chunking strategy
- Implement evidence weighting tiers
- Ensure citation traceability and validation
- Act as technical lead across the offshore development team
- Define sprint scope and architectural standards
- Review pull requests and technical decisions
- Ensure delivery aligns with product logic
- Maintain pragmatic scope control
Description
We are an ambitious start-up venturing into the creation of a next-generation AI-powered decision intelligence platform tailored for cybersecurity leaders. Our focus on innovation allows for a collaborative and high-autonomy environment, making this a unique opportunity for an experienced contract AI Systems Architect. This remote position is designed for individuals who thrive at the intersection of advanced AI systems design and product logic.
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