AI Engineer

AI Engineer

London - Hybrid

£70,000 - £90,000

Artificial Intelligence / Azure / Generative AI / Machine Learning

FinTech / Banking / Insurance

I'm working with a growing business in the fintech and banking sector looking to hire an experienced AI Engineer to help build and deploy AI-driven solutions across its technology platforms.

You'll work on developing and integrating AI capabilities, with a focus on generative AI, machine learning and Microsoft Azure. Working closely with software engineering, data and architecture teams, you'll play a key role in turning emerging AI technologies into secure, scalable solutions that deliver real business value within financial services. The business has been going for 15+ years and develop SaaS products delivered into FinTech, Banking & Insurance businesses across London & the UK.

This role requires office working of 2 days a week in Central London.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy AI solutions using Microsoft Azure and modern AI technologies.
• Build and integrate generative AI applications, including LLM-powered solutions.
• Develop AI workflows, APIs and services that integrate with existing business systems.
• Work with data and engineering teams to prepare data and optimise AI model performance.
• Implement responsible AI practices, security controls and appropriate governance.
• Support the deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement of AI solutions.

Experience Required

• 1-2 years commercial experience as an AI Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer or Software Engineer with a strong AI focus.
• Experience building and deploying AI or machine learning solutions in production environments.

• Strong Python development skills and experience working with APIs.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure AI services, Azure OpenAI or similar cloud-based AI platforms.
• Understanding of generative AI, large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices, version control, testing and CI/CD.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Azure AI Foundry or Azure AI Search.
• Exposure to vector databases, embeddings and document retrieval pipelines.
• Experience with LangChain, LangGraph or similar AI development frameworks.
• Knowledge of machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow or scikit-learn.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or deploying AI workloads at scale.
• Previous experience within fintech, banking or other regulated financial services environments.

Salary

£70,000-£90,000

Benefits

• Competitive Benefits Package
• Pension
• Bonus
• Private Healthcare
• Life Assurance
• Annual Leave