Job Title: AI Engineer
Location: Knutsford, UK
We are seeking a Generative AI Data Engineer with strong experience in financial services (banking, capital markets, insurance, or fintech) to design, build, and scale GenAI‑powered data solutions. The role combines modern data engineering, ML/LLM integration, and domain‑specific financial knowledge to deliver enterprise‑grade AI platforms. You will lead the development of data pipelines, vector databases, retrieval systems, and LLM‑driven applications to solve use cases such as risk analytics, fraud detection, regulatory compliance, document intelligence, and customer insights.
Hybrid working arrangement: The places you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of company offices, client sites, and your home; you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and deploy LLM powered applications using Google Vertex AI
- Develop generative AI solutions such as chatbots, copilots and automation tools
- Implement prompt engineering, finetuning and evaluation techniques
- Build and maintain end‑to‑end ML pipelines, training, deployment, and monitoring
- Integrate AI solutions with enterprise systems via APIs and microservices
- Ensure scalability, reliability and security of AI applications in cloud environments
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into AI solutions
Required Skills and Experience
- Strong hands‑on experience in Python programming
- Proficiency in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Vertex AI
- Experience working with large language models (LLM) such as GPT‑Gemini and other open‑source models
- Knowledge of prompt engineering, finetuning and LLM evaluation
- Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks TensorFlow, PyTorch and Hugging Face
- Experience building APIs and microservices (FastAPI, Flask)
- Understanding of MLOps practices, monitoring, model lifecycle management
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with RAG architectures and vector databases (FAISS, Pinecone, etc.)
- Knowledge of LangChain, LlamaIndex or similar tools
- Familiarity with Responsible AI and model governance
- Experience in the financial services domain
- Exposure to Docker and Kubernetes
EEO Statement
We are a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. We will offer an interview to all candidates who declare they have a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
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