AI Engineer

Principal AI Engineer - Sheffield (1-2 days a week)

GCP REQUIRED

We are working with a growing, tech-driven insurance company looking for an AI Engineer to help build and deploy production-grade AI systems. You'll play a key role in shaping AI-first products, developing end-to-end agents, and creating robust evaluation and monitoring frameworks.

Responsibilities:

• Build and operate AI-powered products that deliver measurable outcomes.
• Develop production-ready AI agents on GCP, including secure API integrations.
• Integrate agent capabilities into applications using MCP servers and supporting tools.
• Develop reliable RAG pipelines, including ingestion, chunking, metadata and vector search.

Required:

• Strong Python skills for backend, APIs, testing and async patterns.
• Practical experience with LLMs, embeddings, prompt/function calling and vector databases.
• Solid knowledge of GCP services (Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud Run/Functions) and Google's ADK.
• Experience with document processing, text normalisation and storage systems (Postgres, Redis, GCS/BigQuery).
• Familiarity with DevOps practices: Git, CI/CD, Docker, observability and automated testing.
• A product-focused mindset and the ability to translate needs into intuitive AI workflows.