Lead AI Engineer - Contract - Outside IR35 - London

🚀 Lead AI Engineer

📍 London (3 days onsite)

💰 Outside IR35

📅 Initial 6-Month Contract

⚡ Immediate Start

Oliver Bernard have partnered with a fast-growing AI-native consultancy delivering cutting-edge GenAI and agentic AI solutions for enterprise clients. Due to a strong project pipeline, they're looking for a Lead AI Engineer to join on an initial 6-month contract and help lead the design and delivery of production-grade AI systems.

You'll work closely with clients and engineering teams to architect, build and deploy scalable AI applications, leveraging the latest advancements in LLMs, RAG, agents and cloud-native infrastructure.

What they're looking for:

✅ Proven experience delivering AI/ML solutions into production environments

✅ Strong Python engineering background

✅ Hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG pipelines and agentic frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI etc.)

✅ Experience building scalable APIs and cloud-native applications (AWS/Azure/GCP)

✅ Ability to lead technical delivery and work directly with stakeholders

Contract Details:

• Outside IR35
• Initial 6-month contract
• Hybrid working (3 days per week in London)
• Opportunity to work on high-impact AI transformation programmes

Lead AI Engineer (Contract) | Outside IR35 | AI Consultancy | London Hybrid