AI Engineer (AI Systems) | Leading Insurance Brand
Package: Up to £80,000 + 15% Bonus + 10% Pension etc
Location : Manchester (Hybrid)
We’re partnering with a forward-thinking organisation investing heavily in next-generation AI systems to power intelligent, data-driven applications.
This is a high-impact Senior Engineer role within a growing engineering function. You’ll take ownership of designing and delivering scalable AI-driven systems, working across the full lifecycle — from architecture through to deployment and optimisation in production.
If you enjoy building from first principles, working with modern LLM frameworks, and shaping how AI is embedded into real-world products, this is a genuinely exciting opportunity.
The Role
You’ll be responsible for architecting and optimising intelligent systems, ensuring they are scalable, performant and production-ready.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing and optimising AI-driven architectures
- Implementing vector and graph database solutions
- Building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines
- Developing agentic reasoning workflows (LangChain, LlamaIndex or similar)
- Managing the end-to-end AI lifecycle — ingestion, embeddings, extraction, synthesis, prompt engineering and orchestration
- Deploying and maintaining containerised models in Docker-based environments
- Collaborating closely with product and business stakeholders
- Mentoring and supporting more junior engineers
What We’re Looking For
- Strong Python engineering background
- Experience with FastAPI, Celery and Postgres
- Hands-on experience with vector databases and graph databases
- Experience building RAG-based systems
- Experience with agentic/orchestration frameworks (e.g. LangChain, LlamaIndex)
- Solid understanding of LLMs, embeddings and prompt engineering
Highly Desirable
- Experience designing multi-agent or autonomous systems
- Docker and cloud-native deployment experience
- Advanced RAG approaches such as:
- Tool-Augmented Generation (TAG)
- Context-Aware Generation (CAG)
- GraphRAG
The Environment
- Collaborative, engineering-led culture
- Strong focus on innovation and continuous improvement
- Flexible hybrid working
- Opportunity to shape AI capability from the ground up
- Modern cloud-native architecture
Package
- Competitive base salary
- Discretionary bonus
- Non-contributory pension
- Private medical (family cover) + dental
- Hybrid working model
- Comprehensive wellbeing benefits
This role would suit someone who enjoys technical ownership, thinking architecturally, and building intelligent systems that have genuine business impact.
If you’d like, I can also give you:
- A shorter LinkedIn version
- A more “AI-first start-up vibe” version
- Or a slightly more conservative/enterprise-toned version depending on who you’re targeting
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