AI Platform Engineer - Cambridge
AI Platform Engineer - Cambridge £55,000 - £65,000 DOE | Hybrid | Permanent
We're a growing technology company based in Cambridge, building AI-powered products and internal tooling. We're looking for an AI Platform Engineer to help design, build, and scale the infrastructure and systems that power our AI/LLM-driven applications.
The Role:
- Design and build scalable back-end services and APIs to support AI/LLM-powered features
- Develop and maintain infrastructure for deploying, monitoring, and scaling AI models in production
- Integrate cloud and/or locally hosted LLMs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, open-source models) into live products
- Build RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and prompt/conversation systems
- Collaborate with data, product, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Implement CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability for AI-driven services
- Own the full lifecycle: experimentation, prototyping, and production deployment
What We're Looking For:
- Strong commercial experience with Python and/or Java, plus cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
- Hands-on experience with LLM-based application development (RAG, agents, copilots)
- Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, and prompt engineering
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes) a plus
- Strong understanding of scalable, production-grade system design
- Comfortable working across experimentation and live deployment environments
What's on Offer:
- Competitive salary + benefits package
- Hybrid working model
- Opportunity to shape AI strategy and architecture from the ground up
- Collaborative, innovation-focused culture