PA Consulting
Senior AI Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £52,000 - 92,000 per year
Requirements:- We are looking for software engineers with a passion for AI, or data scientists who have embraced engineering.
- We are looking for people who experiment, prototype, and explore emerging AI tools in their own time.
- We need a strong foundation in a language suited to AI system development and data workflows.
- We need experience integrating models with APIs, data sources, or production systems.
- We are looking for curiosity about LLMs, RAG pipelines (graph-based and vector-based), and agent frameworks.
- We need an understanding of cloud-native practices across AWS, GCP, or Azure, and DevOps or DevSecOps practices.
- We value a collaborative mindset and a willingness to share, learn, and teach.
- We need an understanding of prompt and context engineering, and model evaluation.
- We need a solid grasp of distributed systems, microservices, and RESTful APIs.
- We need an understanding of LLMOps tools for managing GenAI workflows.
- We work to agile best practices and cross-functionally with multiple teams and stakeholders.
- We use our technical skills to solve problems with clients and on internal projects.
- We participate in live in-person whiteboarding sessions to solve problems as a team, alongside asynchronous communication on Teams.
- We experiment with generative AI frameworks and tools such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, and APIs from OpenAI and Anthropic.
- We build retrieval-augmented generation prototypes with vector stores and knowledge graphs.
- We develop and test agentic architectures through our Genie Platform, enabling AI agents that reason, retrieve, and act across systems.
- We explore LLMOps, evaluation tools, and model observability platforms like TruLens and LangSmith.
- We deploy solutions on modern cloud and DevOps environments such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, choosing the right tools for the problem at hand.
- We constantly learn, test, and share findings across our internal AI community.
- AI
- AI Agents
- AWS
- Azure
- Cloud
- DevSecOps
- DevOps
- GCP
- RAG
- Security
- microservices
- Support
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We are PA, and we believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. Our interdisciplinary teams combine strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering to create opportunity from complexity and deliver enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists, with deep expertise across consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. We offer a flexible and inclusive environment with a technical career track option, hybrid working with a minimum of two days per week in the office or on client site, a broad variety of projects and tech stacks, coaching and mentoring, learning and certification budgets, and extensive benefits including private healthcare, 25 days annual leave plus a half day on Christmas Eve, a company pension, annual performance bonus, share ownership, and tax efficient benefits. We are committed to inclusion, equality, and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and financial well-being of our people.
last updated 34 week of 2026
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