1 to 25 of 29 Contract Artificial Intelligence Engineer Jobs in the UK

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning graduate to fast-track their career development as a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Associate. The successful candidate will undertake a 36-month collaborative project between R&B Switchgear Services Ltd and the University of Salford. … presents a significant technical challenge, offering substantial opportunities for technical, commercial, leadership and professional development. You will be responsible for developing and embedding advanced artificial intelligence technologies capable of analysing complex engineering information across visual and text-based sources. This will involve combining computer vision, natural language processing ...

AI Evaluation Engineer Rate/Duration/Location £700-£750/day Inside IR35 | Duration: 4 months | Clearance: BPSS + SC eligible | Location: London, Bristol or Manchester | Hybrid: 2 days onsite per week. Overview We're looking for an experienced AI Evaluation Engineer to join … Evaluation, Evaluation Harnesses, LLM Testing and Benchmarking, Prompt Engineering, Python Development, Model and Agent Integration. Ideal Background AI Evaluation Engineer, Applied AI Engineer, AI Engineer, LLM Engineer, Harness Engineer, Prompt Engineer or Software Engineer specialising ...

title: Cyber AI Engineer - OpenAI/LLM/RAG Location: Remote Rate: £400 - £425 per day Contract: 6 months rolling Candidates must be willing and eligible to go through SC security clearance for this role. Want to work at the intersection of Generative AI and Cyber Security … looking for a Cyber AI Engineer to help turn cutting-edge AI capabilities into practical solutions for Security Operations Centres (SOCs). This is a hands-on role focused on prototyping, experimentation and proof-of-concept development - taking ideas from discovery through to working AI solutions that could ...

AI ENGINEER - AI AGENTS/RAG/PYTHON/SQL/APIs £750-£800 per day | Inside IR35 | 3-month initial contract | Manchester or Leeds | Hybrid THE DETAILS £750-£800 per day Inside IR35 Initial 3 months with likely extensions Manchester or Leeds 2 days per week … site We're looking for an experienced AI Engineer to join a major enterprise AI transformation programme, working through a leading Managed Service Provider. This is an initial 3-month contract with likely extensions, offering £750-£800 per day Inside IR35 and requiring 2 days per week ...

Lead AI Engineer £560 per day (Inside IR35) | 12-Month Contract | Remote with Occasional London Travel We are seeking an experienced Lead AI Engineer to join a high-profile government programme, leading the design and delivery of AI-enabled digital services and platforms. This role will … vector databases, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI agent frameworks Exposure to GDS standards and government digital delivery practices Contract Details Role: Lead AI Engineer Rate: £560 per day IR35: Inside IR35 Duration: 12 months Location: Remote, with occasional travel to London Clearance: BPSS Eligible Start Date: ASAP ...

Cleared AI Engineer - Contract - London Opportunity for an SC Cleared AI Engineer to join our client's team on a remote basis with occasional travel to client site.You'll work within a product squad to design, build and deliver cutting-edge GenAI and Agentic AI product. ...

Cleared AI Engineer - Contract - London Opportunity for an SC Cleared AI Engineer to join our client's team on a remote basis with occasional travel to client site.You'll work within a product squad to design, build and deliver cutting-edge GenAI and Agentic AI product. ...

Your new company Hays are currently partnered with one of the largest, longstanding UK Government bodies - supporting them exclusively with the recruitment of a Power Platform/AI Engineer. This organisation have set up a ...

Senior Applied AI Engineer Defence & National Security Location: London/Oxford Hybrid Contract: 6 months initially, with strong potential for extension Day Rate: £700£900 per day, depending on experience IR35: Outside IR35 Start Date: Immediate Security Clearance: UK SC eligibility required (British Passport and 5+ Years … developing advanced AI systems for defence, national security, critical infrastructure and other high-stakes environments. The business is looking for a Senior Applied AI Engineer to take genuine technical ownership of the design and delivery of production-grade agentic AI systems. This is a builder's role rather ...

Senior Applied AI Engineer Private Sector Location: Harwell, Oxfordshire Hybrid (2 days per week on site, remainder remote) Contract: 6 months initially, with strong potential for extension Day Rate: £700£900 per day, depending on experience IR35: Outside IR35 Start Date: Immediate About the Role We are working … frontier technology company developing advanced AI systems for organisations operating in complex, high-stakes environments. The business is looking for a Senior Applied AI Engineer to take genuine technical ownership of the design and delivery of production-grade agentic AI systems. This is a builder's role rather ...

Python AI Engineer London - Hybrid Rate: £600 - £700 Per day - Inside IR35 Start: Mid October Contract - 6 Months Python AI Engineer required to develop production-grade Python services for Generative AI and complex RAG solutions. You will work across AI workflow orchestration, information retrieval, evidence processing ...

Overview Role: AI Full Stack Engineer (AI & ML Engineer) Location: Fenchurch Street, London Duration: Oct 12, 2026 - Dec 15, 2026 (9 Weeks, 2 Days) Hours: 40 hours/week Rate: 291 PAYE/388 Umbrella Core Technical Stack Programming & APIs: Python, RESTful API development, JSON Schema ...

Title: Senior AI Prompt Engineer (Contract) Location: Sheffield, UK (Hybrid: 2-3 days on-site) Duration: 6 Months (with potential extension) Experience: 5-7 Years Role Overview We are seeking a Senior AI Prompt Engineer to drive enterprise-grade AI solutions across software development and business ...

Client: Global Technology Leader - NASDAQ Listed Location: Hybrid - Bristol/3 Days Per Week Duration: 6 months + Intention to extend (Greenfield Multi-Year Programme) Day rate: £500 - Inside IR35 Start date: ASAP Our client ...

AI Principal/Senior Software Engineer x2 Inside IR35 Contract Rate: up to £800/day Location: Remote/London Duration: 6 months initially Description: The opportunity This is a contract engagement supporting a major Information Security AI transformation, a large programme that is modernising and automating … security operating model with agentic AI. We are looking for both a Principal and Senior hands-on engineer to drive the build of a portfolio of agentic AI security applications, defining the solution architecture and contributing to the most complex components of the solution and system design. ...

AI Engineer - 3 months - Circa £450 per day inside ir35 - Remote Please note: Due to the nature of the project, successful applicants will be required to be SC cleared prior to appointment Lead the practical design, prototyping and evaluation of OpenAI-powered solutions to augment Cyber Security Operations ...

Hays are now looking for an AI Platform Engineer for one of our local clients: £480 p/d Inside IR35 Remote 3 month contract Seeking a Senior AI/SharePoint Engineer to lead the build of an enterprise AI evidence discovery platform using SharePoint, Azure ...

Security Automation and AI SOC Engineer ( Torq, Tines, Swimlane) Retail Hybrid: London (2 days per week) 6 months £750 per day In short: We're looking for someone who will understand both how to build automation and how to embed the operational processes, governance and ways of working … AI. Essential: Experience designing an AI adoption strategy for a SOC. In full: We are seeking an experienced Security Automation and AI SOC Engineer to help accelerate the evolution of our Security Operations capability through further automation, orchestration and the pragmatic adoption of AI. This role will focus ...

AI Product Engineer Financial Services Location: Belfast (Hybrid 3 days in the office) Rate: £250£700 p/d inside IR35 (via umbrella), depending on experience Contract: Multiple opportunities across varying seniority levels The Role Major Financial Services organisation looking to hire multiple AI Product Engineers, with opportunities ...

Cleared Lead AI Engineer - AI Adoption & Governance £550 per day | Inside IR35 | 6 Months | Mainly Remote We're seeking an experienced SC Cleared Lead AI Engineer to drive AI adoption, governance, and engineering best practice across a large-scale organisation. This is a senior technical leadership … AI adoption and engineering standards at scale Work with cutting-edge AI technologies and emerging agentic frameworks If you're an SC-cleared AI Engineer with experience driving adoption, governance, and hands-on implementation of AI tooling at scale, we'd like to hear from you. Reasonable Adjustments ...

Product Engineer (AI-Augmented & Full-Stack Systems) Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland - Titanic Quarter Rate: £400-£650 per day, Inside IR35 Working Model: Hybrid - 3 days per week in the office Contract Type: Contract Openings: Multiple headcounts Experience: 2-8+ years, depending on level The Opportunity … strong focus on product outcomes. Hybrid working, with three days per week in Belfast Interested? If you're a hands-on Product Engineer looking for your next contract opportunity, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply with your latest CV, outlining your relevant full-stack engineering ...

Role Overview We are recruiting a Senior AI Prompt Engineer for a client delivering enterprise-grade AI solutions across automation, software development, and business workflows. The role requires strong hands-on expertise with Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Claude (Claude Code), alongside proven experience in automation, code development ...

Location: London (Hybrid) Day rate: £400 per day Outside IR35 We're looking for a hands-on Microsoft AI Engineer to join a growing technology team and help build and roll out AI solutions across the business. This is a proper engineering role rather than something focused purely ...

DevOps, and platform engineering Your Experience To succeed in this role, you will bring: - A strong background as a Senior or Lead Software Engineer, Lead DevOps Engineer, or similar hands-on technical leadership role - Excellent software engineering fundamentals, including system design, clean code, testing, and maintainability ...

Agentic AI Engineer/Spec Driven Development/C# - SDD/Claude Rate: £500 per day (Umbrella) Location: Bristol/Hybrid (Flexibility required) Duration: 6 Months (With view to extend) Start Date: ASAP We are looking for a Gen AI Developer who was a C# Developer … pivoted into the world of GenAI and Autonomous agents. You will be a forward-thinking Contract Engineer to spearhead the evolution of our clients AI ecosystem. As a senior developer you will be stepping into an innovative environment, initially working alongside AI Agents within an AWS framework using ...