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

Job Details

Company
Nextech
Location
Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / Remote Options
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£55,000 - £65,000 per annum
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