AI Engineer – Contract – London – Inside IR35

Company: Oliver Bernard
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Location: London
Job Description:

Inside IR35

OB are currently partnered with a leading private markets investment firm that is making significant investment into enterprise AI and looking to hire an AI Forward Deployed Engineer to help build and scale its next-generation AI platform.

This is a unique role sitting at the intersection of software engineering, AI platform development, and business-facing delivery. You’ll work directly with investment and finance teams to identify high-value use cases while also helping build the governed AI infrastructure that enables AI adoption across the firm.

Key Requirements

  • Strong software engineering background with experience building and deploying production applications
  • Commercial experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications in production
  • Experience with agentic workflows, AI copilots, RAG systems, and tool-calling architectures
  • Hands‑on experience with frameworks such as MCP, LangChain, LangGraph, Pydantic AI, or similar orchestration tools
  • Experience integrating LLMs via APIs from providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic
  • Knowledge of LLM observability, evaluation, tracing, and monitoring tools (Langfuse or similar)
  • Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to work directly with business users to translate requirements into software solutions

Nice to Have

  • Experience building MCP connectors or enterprise system integrations
  • Experience with LLM gateways, model routing, prompt caching, or inference management
  • Exposure to AI governance, privacy controls, auditability, or regulated environments
  • Experience administering Claude Enterprise, ChatGPT Enterprise, or similar enterprise AI platforms
  • Financial services, private markets, investment management, or broader regulated industry experience

What’s on Offer?

  • Opportunity to shape AI adoption within a leading investment organisation
  • Work across both AI platform engineering and high‑impact business-facing AI initiatives
  • Exposure to cutting‑edge AI technologies including agentic systems, enterprise LLM infrastructure, and governed AI platforms

If you’re a strong software engineer with experience delivering production AI applications and enjoy working directly with stakeholders to solve complex business problems, I’d be keen to speak with you.

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Posted: June 11th, 2026