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# Artificial Intelligence Engineer

- **Company:** Discover International
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £52,000.0 - £60,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software Applications, Microsoft Azure, Business Systems, Cloud Computing, Databases, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Search Technologies, Working Model 2D, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Prompt Engineering, Generative AI, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Apache Kafka, Machine Learning Operations, Virtual Agents, Restful APIs, Docker, Web Api
- **Published:** August 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5844156514

## About the Role

* Strong Python and backend development experience
 * Hands-on experience with OpenAI / Azure OpenAI, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings and vector search
 * Proven experience building agentic AI with LangGraph or similar frameworks such as LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, or CrewAI
 * Experience with vector databases such as pgvector, Azure AI Search, Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, FAISS, Milvus, or OpenSearch
 * Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, plus Docker and Kubernetes
 * Solid grasp of API integration, tool/function calling, and agent orchestration
 * Nice to have: Model Context Protocol (MCP)
 * Nice to have: Kafka or event-driven architectures
 * Nice to have: MLOps, LLM evaluation, observability, and monitoring

Responsibilities:

 * Design and develop GenAI applications using OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or equivalent LLM platforms
 * Build multi-agent solutions with agent-orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph
 * Create Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines over enterprise knowledge using embeddings and vector search
 * Develop scalable Python backend services and REST APIs
 * Integrate AI into existing business systems, databases, and third-party APIs
 * Optimise prompts, retrieval quality, latency, and cost for live production workloads

Technologies:

 * Agentic AI
 * AI
 * API
 * AWS
 * OpenSearch
 * Azure
 * Backend
 * Cloud
 * Docker
 * GCP
 * Kafka
 * Kubernetes
 * LLM
 * MCP
 * MLOps
 * Python
 * RAG
 * REST
 * DevOps

## Description

We are hiring a Senior AI Engineer (GenAI) on a 6-month contract in Mid Sussex with a hybrid working model of 3 days on-site per week. The rate is £575-£625 per day. We are looking for an experienced GenAI engineer to help us design and build secure, production-grade AI-powered applications on top of Large Language Models and modern AI frameworks, working with a cross-functional team to deliver solutions that are genuinely usable at scale.


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