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Base pay range
Tech stack: GenAI, LLMs, ML, backend APIs, cloud experience, containerisation, DevSecOps
Location: Fully remote, must be UK based
Salary: up to £84,000 (depending on experience)
Benefits: Share scheme, 6% matched pension and others
Contract type: Full time, permanent
Sanderson Recruitment are exclusively supporting a FTSE 100 Financial Services and Insurance business in the search for a Gen AI Staff Engineer.
This is a hands‑on technical leadership position, ideal for a dynamic and proactive engineer who thrives on solving complex challenges and driving technical excellence in a fast‑paced, innovative environment. You’ll lead the design, development and delivery of advanced AI solutions, including Machine Learning and LLM.
You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the GenAI strategy, setting technical direction and ensuring robust, scalable and secure AI implementations. Working closely with engineering, data, security, architecture and operations teams, you’ll mentor engineers and help the organisation adopt GenAI responsibly.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, build and maintain AI solutions, including ML and LLM applications.
- Lead technical design from requirements gathering to live release.
- Ensure seamless integration of AI components with APIs, data and user‑facing systems.
- Own testing, monitoring, security, performance and DevSecOps for AI systems.
- Drive technical excellence, set engineering standards and mentor junior engineers.
- Encourage and practice Test Driven Development and delivery best practices.
- Actively contribute to Agile ceremonies and technical forums.
- Address technical debt and champion continuous improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, communicating effectively with both technical and non‑technical audiences.
Skills & Experience
- Proven experience as a Staff-level engineer with hands‑on software development expertise.
- Significant experience building GenAI solutions (ML and LLM).
- Experience with REST APIs and SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL).
- Cloud experience, ideally with GCP and Vertex.AI or Azure and AzureAI.
- Familiarity with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins).
- Advanced Prompt Engineering skills and experience with 3rd‑party models (e.g., Anthropic).
- Exceptional communication, leadership, and mentoring skills, with a proven ability to up‑skill and develop team capabilities.
- Understanding of Agile Scrum methodology and DevSecOps practices.
- Knowledge of identity management frameworks, security tools and performance testing.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Information Technology
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