AI Engineer (LLMs, Agents & Data Science)

Salary: £29,500 - 42,000 per year

Requirements:

• Typically, 2–4 years experience in data science, machine learning, or AI engineering.
• Solid grounding in core data science and machine learning.
• Practical experience with LLMs and generative AI, including prompting and RAG.
• Familiarity with how AI agents are built and orchestrated.
• Strong Python skills and experience with common data and machine learning libraries.
• Good engineering habits.
• Clear communication skills and a collaborative team mindset.
• Willingness to work on client sites, potentially for extended periods.
• Willingness to travel for work purposes and stay away from home for extended periods.
• Eligibility to work in the UK without restriction.
• Exposure to cloud AI platforms, with Azure as a plus.
• Experience practicing MLOps and LLMOps.
• Early experience mentoring junior colleagues.
• Interest in consulting and client-facing delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Build, test, and deploy AI and machine learning components within client projects to the standards and designs set by senior colleagues.
• Develop GenAI and LLM-based features, including prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, and simple agentic workflows, alongside more traditional ML models.
• Deliver classical data science tasks such as data preparation, feature engineering, model training, and evaluation.
• Translate solution designs into clean, well-documented, production-minded code.
• Contribute to model evaluation, testing, and monitoring.
• Support and guide very junior and graduate resources, reviewing their work and helping them grow.
• Help peers unblock technical problems and share knowledge across the team.
• Take part in client and team discussions and communicate work clearly.

Technologies:

• AI
• AI Agents
• Azure
• Cloud
• Support
• LLM
• Machine Learning
• MLOps
• Model Training
• Python
• RAG

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We are Talan Data x AI, a leading Data Management and Analytics consultancy working closely with leading software vendors and top industry experts across a range of sectors to unlock value and insight from data. Innovation is at the heart of our client offerings, and we help companies improve efficiency with modern processes and technologies such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. This is a full-time consulting role at associate level, focused on delivery across modern AI and offering genuine responsibility from day one, exposure to real client problems, and a clear path into a leadership track. Our compensation and benefits package includes BDP Plus, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, a 5-day holiday buy/sell option, private medical insurance, life cover, cycle to work scheme, eligibility for our pension scheme with a 5% employer contribution and salary sacrifice option, an employee assistance programme, and bespoke online learning via Udemy for Business.

last updated 36 week of 2026