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AI Platform Engineer - Cambridge

Nextech Group Ltd
Cambridge, UK
8 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Compensation
£55,000.0 - £65,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source
www.totaljobs.com

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Python (Programming Language) Open Source Technology Software Deployment Software Engineering Large Language Models Prompt Engineering Build Management
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Job description

  • Design and build scalable back-end services and APIs to support AI/LLM-powered features
  • Develop and maintain infrastructure for deploying, monitoring, and scaling AI models in production
  • Integrate cloud and/or locally hosted LLMs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, open-source models) into live products
  • Build RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and prompt/conversation systems
  • Collaborate with data, product, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability for AI-driven services
  • Own the full lifecycle: experimentation, prototyping, and production deployment

Requirements

  • Strong commercial experience with Python and/or Java, plus cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
  • Hands-on experience with LLM-based application development (RAG, agents, copilots)
  • Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, and prompt engineering
  • Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes) a plus
  • Strong understanding of scalable, production-grade system design
  • Comfortable working across experimentation and live deployment environments

Benefits & conditions

  • Competitive salary + benefits package
  • Hybrid working model
  • Opportunity to shape AI strategy and architecture from the ground up

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