Senior AI Software Engineer (GenAI)

Salary: £? – ? per year

Requirements

• We have built and deployed production LLM applications.
• We have strong experience with RAG, including document ingestion, chunking strategies, embeddings, vector search and retrieval, context engineering, and prompt orchestration.
• We have LLM deployment experience, not just experimentation.
• We have experience with Azure OpenAI, Ollama and/or Vertex AI.
• We have experience with Python, FastAPI, and REST API development.
• We have experience with LangChain and/or LangGraph.
• We have experience with AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm.
• We have experience with secure AI development and DevSecOps practices, including RBAC, Azure AD, Key Vault, secrets management, secure deployment patterns, auditability, and governance.
• We have experience with LLM evaluation and optimisation, including grounding, hallucination detection, response quality measurement, accuracy testing, and prompt and context engineering.
• We can confidently explain RAG end to end, embeddings and vector databases, production LLM operations, AI security, model evaluation, and exposing AI capabilities through APIs and enterprise applications.
• Desirable experience includes Azure AI Foundry, agentic AI, MCP, private LLM deployments, and working in enterprise security or regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• We build, deploy, and secure production‑grade AI applications within a regulated enterprise environment.
• We deliver real‑world GenAI solutions and clearly explain both the concepts and the implementation behind them.
• We design and implement end‑to‑end RAG solutions.
• We deploy and operate LLMs in production.
• We secure AI systems and protect sensitive data.
• We evaluate and improve model performance.
• We expose AI capabilities through APIs and enterprise applications.

Technologies

• AI
• API
• Azure
• DevSecOps
• Docker
• FastAPI
• Helm
• Kubernetes
• LLM
• Python
• REST
• RBAC
• Security
• Cloud

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We are hiring a Senior Generative AI Engineer / AI Software Engineer for a 6-month contract with potential to extend. This is a hands‑on role focused on building, deploying, and securing production‑grade AI applications in a regulated enterprise environment. We are looking for someone with proven real‑world GenAI delivery experience, strong software engineering skills, and the ability to explain architectural decisions clearly. Candidates should be able to work across production LLMs, RAG, secure deployment, and evaluation.

last updated 28 week of 2026

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