AI & Emerging technologies

AI Engineer

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Newcastle Upon Tyne · Tyne And Wear · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you will build, deploy, and optimize production-grade AI applications and Generative AI solutions. You work closely with cross-functional teams to integrate AI models into enterprise systems, delivering reliable AI at scale. You will shape AI workflows, from model training to deployment, with a focus on performance, safety, and value for customers. This opportunity combines hands-on engineering with collaboration across Solution Architects, Product Managers, and Engineering Teams in a growth-focused technology partner environment.

Pay / Benefits
  • Quarterly Profit Share Scheme
  • flexible/remote working
  • Pension
  • Private Healthcare
  • Life Assurance
  • Educational assistance
Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and maintain AI-powered applications and services
  • Develop and deploy ML and Generative AI solutions
  • Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems and AI agents
  • Integrate foundation models and APIs into enterprise applications
  • Create reusable AI components and frameworks
  • Train, fine-tune, evaluate, and deploy ML models
  • Develop feature engineering and model evaluation pipelines
  • Implement model monitoring and performance tracking
  • Optimize inference performance and cost efficiency
  • Develop LLM-based applications and workflows
  • Build prompt templates, agent frameworks, and orchestration pipelines
  • Implement vector search and knowledge retrieval systems
  • Design evaluation frameworks for AI quality, safety, and reliability
  • Improve hallucination mitigation and response accuracy
  • Design and automate ML training, validation, and retraining pipelines
  • Version and manage datasets, features, and model artefacts using MLflow or similar
  • Deploy and serve ML models via REST APIs or batch inference at scale on Databricks, Snowflake or similar
  • Monitor model performance in production, detect drift and degradation
  • Manage feature stores and ensure data pipeline reliability for ML workloads
  • Implement experiment tracking and reproducibility across the model lifecycle
  • Collaborate with Solution Architects, Product Managers and Engineering Teams
  • Participate in code reviews and technical design discussions
  • Support testing, deployment, and ongoing optimisation activities
Key requirements
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Scikit-learn
  • PyTorch and/or TensorFlow
  • Hugging Face
  • Main AI services from leading cloud service and model providers
  • Supervised and unsupervised learning
  • Model evaluation
  • Feature engineering
  • Statistical concepts
  • RAG systems
  • AI agents
  • LLM-powered applications
  • Vector search solutions
  • LangChain
  • LlamaIndex
  • Semantic Kernel
  • LangGraph
  • AWS
  • Docker and containerization
  • Kubernetes (preferred)
  • CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
  • 3+ years in ML engineering or data science with production deployments
  • Experience deploying models to production and building Gen AI applications including RAG systems, LLM integration, or agentic workflows
  • collaboration with cross-functional teams
  • code reviews and technical design discussions
  • proactive problem solving
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Scikit-learn

Reference: WJ-747_31237694 · Posted 05 Nov 2026

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