AI Engineer

Senior AI / ML Engineer - Digital Modernisation (Contract)

Location: Alderley Park, Cheshire (Hybrid - 2-3 days onsite / 2-3 days remote)

Duration: May 2026 - May 2027

Rate: Competitive

We are delivering Phase 2 of a Progressive Digital Modernisation programme , focused on the design, development, and deployment of scalable AI/ML and Generative AI solutions on Azure . This programme centres on modernising applications using cloud‑native AI services and enabling enterprise‑scale adoption of advanced AI capabilities.

We are seeking an experienced

Senior AI / ML Engineer to help deliver production‑grade AI solutions across this transformation initiative.

Role Overview

You will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying end‑to‑end AI/ML and Generative AI solutions for production environments. The role will focus on Agentic AI solutions, RAG pipelines, LLM integrations, and cloud‑native AI architecture , working closely with engineering, data, and business stakeholders.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience designing, developing, and deploying AI/ML and Generative AI solutions into production
• Hands‑on experience building Agentic AI solutions
• Strong Python development skills with experience using AI/ML frameworks
• Experience with Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI
• Strong experience building and optimising:
• RAG pipelines
• LLM integrations
• Agent‑based workflows
• Expertise in:
• Model selection and fine‑tuning
• Prompt engineering
• Enterprise system integration
• Solid data science fundamentals, including:
• Data analysis
• Feature engineering
• Machine learning
• Statistics

Desirable Skills

• Advanced prompt engineering and LLM fine‑tuning
• Experience integrating AI solutions within complex enterprise environments
• Strong understanding of cloud‑native AI architecture best practices