AI Engineer

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• We need experience in defence, national security, or a similarly regulated environment.
• We need a background in a consulting or client-facing engineering role.
• We need strong software engineering fundamentals, including Git, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, and containers.
• We need practical experience with AI systems, including LLM behavior and architectures.
• We need experience with evaluation techniques and failure mode analysis.
• We need experience with RAG and applied AI system design.
• We need a strong understanding of AI limitations and appropriate use cases.
• We need excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• We need eligibility for UK SC-level security clearance.

Responsibilities:

• We design, build, and deploy AI-enabled systems in defence and other highly regulated environments.
• We take AI systems into production with a focus on robustness and security.
• We integrate AI components, including LLMs, into production applications and workflows.
• We design and implement RAG systems.
• We evaluate LLM behavior, identify failure modes, and implement mitigation strategies.
• We test and debug non-deterministic AI systems in production.
• We make pragmatic decisions on when to use AI versus deterministic or statistical approaches.
• We work with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, version control, and automated testing practices.
• We embed AI-assisted development tools while maintaining strong standards of security, correctness, and oversight.

Technologies:

• AI
• CI/CD
• Git
• LLM
• Security

More:

We are a high-impact consulting team delivering meaningful AI work in defence and other highly regulated environments. This is a UK-wide role with consulting travel and a salary of 70k to 100k. We offer ownership from day one, real responsibility on live delivery, and the opportunity to work on high-impact problems with operational consequence. You will join a high-calibre, fast-paced environment with a steep learning curve, international exposure across UK, US, and European engagements, and the chance to help shape a growing consulting practice.

last updated 30 week of 2026