
IO Associates
Senior AI Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £42,000 - 72,500 per year
Requirements:- We require active UK Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance, with at least SC minimum.
- We are looking for extensive experience managing, scaling, and debugging containerized workloads in Kubernetes.
- We need hands-on experience with Helm charts, Kubernetes networking, storage volumes, and GPU orchestration.
- We require deep experience using LangChain and LangGraph to build complex, stateful, and cyclic agent architectures.
- We are looking for strong proficiency in Python, including integrations with LlamaIndex and Hugging Face.
- We need experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Qdrant, Milvus, or Chroma.
- We require a strong background in software engineering practices, including Git, testing, design patterns, and API development with FastAPI or Flask.
- We are looking for experience deploying to secure cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP using EKS, AKS, or GKE.
- We design, build, and deploy production-ready GenAI applications and multi-agent systems in secure environments.
- We design, implement, and optimize multi-agent frameworks and stateful LLM applications.
- We containerize, deploy, and scale AI models, APIs, and microservices across production Kubernetes clusters.
- We configure Kubernetes workloads for high availability, including resource limits, GPU provisioning, and autoscaling for heavy LLM inference workloads.
- We build robust Python codebases that comply with strict data security and air-gapped environment protocols within containerized environments.
- We establish monitoring, evaluation, and CI/CD pipelines to track LLM latency, cost, and hallucination rates.
- AI
- API
- AWS
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- FastAPI
- Flask
- GCP
- Git
- Helm
- Kubernetes
- LLM
- Python
- Security
- microservices
- DevOps
More:
We are offering a 6-month contract role at £700 per day, operating outside IR35, with a high likelihood of extension. We offer hybrid working with remote options available for UK-based candidates. This position sits within a secure environment and requires active DV clearance, reflecting the sensitive nature of the work.
last updated 36 week of 2026
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IO Associates
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£75,000
UK median
This salary is 24% below the UK median for Senior roles (£75,000/yr).
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