Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Senior/Lead AI Engineer - Contract

Hybrid - London

Start ASAP - 6 months

Outside IR35 - rate depending on experience

I'm working with an insurance client looking to bring in a Senior AI Engineer to help build agentic applications. This is a hands on role where you will be designing, building and deploying enterprise grader AI systems powered by LLMs.

The Role

Working on cutting edge AI solutions building production ready systems that combine LLMs, RAG, vector databases and agentic AI to solve real business problems, This is more than prompt engineering - you'll be owning the orchestration layer to ensure AI systems are scalable and reliable.

What we're looking for

• Proven experience building Production AI applications using LLMs
• Strong experience with RAG architecture, vector databases and retrieval optimisation
• Hands on experience building multi agent or agentic AI systems using frameworks such as LangGraph, Claude Agents SDK, Open AI SDK or similar
• Strong Python engineering skills with experience building production APIs and cloud-native applications
• MCP experience
• Experience working across AWS, Azure or GCP
• Knowledge of CI/CD, testing, deployment pipelines and distributed systems
• Experience with prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, observability and optimisation for latency, cost and quality