Senior AI Engineer

Salary: £75,000 - 75,000 per year

Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence or a related discipline.
• 5 years commercial experience in Backend Engineering, Data Engineering or Machine Learning Engineering.
• Expert-level Python development skills.
• Commercial experience with Machine Learning, NLP or AI platforms.
• Experience productionising machine learning models at scale.
• Strong experience designing RESTful APIs and microservices using frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask or Django.
• Experience working with SQL and relational databases, including performance optimisation.
• Experience designing cloud-native solutions within AWS and/or Azure.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and scalable architectures.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and containerised deployments.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and Infrastructure as Code.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• A passion for mentoring and developing other engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain scalable AI data pipelines and processing workflows.
• Develop cloud-native backend systems and scalable microservices.
• Partner closely with Data Scientists to productionise Machine Learning, NLP and Generative AI models.
• Build and optimise RESTful APIs for AI model serving.
• Monitor system reliability, model performance and observability across production environments.
• Drive best practices across CI/CD, automated testing, Infrastructure as Code and MLOps.
• Improve system integration and interoperability across enterprise platforms.
• Support internal and external consumers of AI services and APIs.
• Translate evolving business requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership within the team.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and influence engineering standards.

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Azure
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Django
• Docker
• FastAPI
• Flask
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Machine Learning
• MLOps
• Model Serving
• Python
• SQL
• microservices
• Git
• PyTorch

More:

We are a leading global organisation with a growing AI and Data Science function, building innovative AI, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing solutions that power intelligent products used by customers around the world. We offer a permanent Senior AI Engineer opportunity based in London with hybrid working, a collaborative cross-functional engineering environment, excellent benefits, and the chance to work on cutting-edge AI projects with opportunities for technical leadership and career progression. This role reports to the AI Engineering Manager and offers the chance to help shape scalable AI platforms and production systems in a modern cloud-native technology stack.

last updated 34 week of 2026