Senior AI Engineer
Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires Senior AI Engineer to be based at their client’s office in London, UK.
This is a hybrid role – you can work remotely in the UK and attend the London office 3 days per week .
This is a 6+ month temporary contract to start asap
Day rate: Competitive Market rate
This role will have a significant impact on delivering innovative solutions for one of the leading retailers in the UK, driving digital transformation and enhancing customer experiences. You’ll work on projects that leverage cutting-edge technologies such as microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud platforms, contributing to scalable, secure, and high-performing systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop agentic AI systems capable of multi-step reasoning, planning, and action execution
- Build scalable AI applications using Python as the core development language
- Develop and integrate solutions using Azure OpenAI Services, including prompt engineering, embeddings, and fine-tuning strategies
- Implement orchestration pipelines using Semantic Kernel and LangGraph for multi-agent workflows
- Integrate tools, APIs, and enterprise systems using MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar frameworks
- Design memory, state management, and context-aware agent behaviors
- Optimize performance, cost, and latency of LLM-based solutions
- Collaborate with solution architects, product teams, and stakeholders to translate business use cases into AI solutions
- Ensure governance, security, and responsible AI practices are embedded into solutions
- Design agent architectures
- Define orchestration patterns
- Design tool strategy and integration approach
- Lead implementation of AI services
- Establish coding standards and best practices
- Guide evaluation and safety approaches
- Support production deployments and troubleshooting
Key Requirements
Hands-on Skills Required
- Design multi-agent solutions
- Design RAG architecture
- Implement complex orchestration workflows
- Build scalable AI microservices
- Define AI governance patterns
- Troubleshoot production AI solutions
Technologies
- Azure OpenAI
- Azure AI Foundry
- Semantic Kernel
- LangGraph
- MCP
- Azure AI Search
- Event-driven architectures
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