AI Engineer
Yolk Recruitment Ltd
Cardiff, United Kingdom
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Compensation
£ 82KJob location
Remote
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Tech stack
API
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud Computing
DevOps
Distributed Systems
Python
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Large Language Models
Multi-Agent Systems
Backend
Kubernetes
Machine Learning Operations
Serverless Computing
Docker
Microservices
Job description
You'll be working across modern AI tooling, backend engineering and cloud infrastructure to develop intelligent workflows, LLM-powered features and agentic systems that improve automation, decision-making and user experience. What you'll be doing
- Building and deploying production AI applications using LLMs
- Designing agentic workflows and multi-step AI pipelines
- Developing scalable backend APIs and cloud-native services
- Creating RAG pipelines, embeddings and AI retrieval systems
- Improving AI reliability through testing, evaluation and guardrails
- Working closely with engineering, product and business teams
- Contributing to architecture decisions and AI best practice
- Helping shape the future direction of AI capability across the business, * Opportunity to work on genuinely cutting-edge AI products
- High-impact engineering role with real ownership
- Modern tech stack and AI-first environment
- Fully remote flexibility
- Strong growth plans and long-term AI investment
If you're interested in building production AI systems rather than just experimenting with them, this is a genuinely strong opportunity to join a business putting AI at the centre of its product strategy. Not what you are looking for?
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Requirements
Python, AWS, APIs, LLMs, RAG, Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, cloud-native architecture and modern AI engineering tooling. What they're looking for
- Strong Python backend engineering experience
- Experience building and deploying LLM-based applications
- Good understanding of APIs, distributed systems and cloud platforms
- Hands-on experience with RAG, embeddings and AI orchestration
- Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and modern engineering practices
- Someone comfortable operating in a fast-moving product environment
Nice to have
- Experience with agentic AI frameworks
- AI evaluation and guardrail implementation
- Fine-tuning or hosting LLMs
- Reinforcement learning or planning systems
- MSc or PhD in a relevant discipline