AI Engineer

Elite Sports Tech
Cambridge, United Kingdom
4 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 150K

Job location

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Tech stack

API
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Azure
Databases
DevOps
Python
Reliability Engineering
Software Engineering
TypeScript
Unstructured Data
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Google Cloud Platform
PyTorch
React
Flask
Large Language Models
Prompt Engineering
Backend
FastAPI
Kubernetes
Information Technology
HuggingFace
Data Pipelines
Docker

Job description

AI Engineer needed to join a highly skilled Engineering & AI team in a rapidly growing sports tech company.

Role and Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and deploy Large Language Model (LLM)-driven applications into production
  • Develop retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for real-time insights from performance and wearable data
  • Optimise and fine-tune LLMs for efficiency, scalability, and accuracy in production environments
  • Build and maintain robust data pipelines and scalable backend components in Python
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Requirements

  • 2+ years of hands-on AI Engineering experience, with strong software engineering fundamentals
  • Proven experience working with LLMs in production (fine-tuning, prompt engineering, or API integrations)
  • Proficiency in Python
  • Experience designing and deploying RAG pipelines (vector databases, embeddings, retrieval optimisation)
  • Academic Excellence: BSc or MSc in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, or related technical field from a top university
  • Familiarity with frameworks such as PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, or LlamaIndex
  • Passionate about sports, health, or fitness - you'll feel right at home here

Bonus points if you:

  • Have worked with unstructured data (text, documents, time-series) and applied NLP techniques
  • Have experience scaling LLM systems using cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)

Benefits & conditions

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About the company

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