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# AI Engineer

- **Company:** IFS
- **Location:** Staines-upon-Thames, UK
- **Salary:** £64,000.0 - £104,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Programming Tools, Django Web Framework, Python (Programming Language), Node.Js, Azure Machine Learning, Search Technologies, SQL Databases, TypeScript, ReactJS, Large Language Models, State Machines, Backend, Fastapi, Build Management, Graphql, Front End Software Development, Docker
- **Published:** August 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5856706662

## About the Role

* Strong fullstack engineering experience with deep backend capability
 * Production experience with Python and/or TypeScript
 * Experience owning systems from concept to production
 * Comfortable working in small, high-ownership teams
 * Hands-on experience with LLMs and modern AI tooling
 * Experience with RAG systems, embeddings, and vector search
 * Experience with agentic patterns such as tools, planners, and evaluators
 * Experience productionising ML/AI systems, including monitoring, failure modes, and iteration
 * Pragmatic mindset that understands where AI adds value and where it does not
 * Comfortable operating with ambiguity
 * Strong collaborator with Product, Design, and other engineers
 * Bias toward shipping, learning, and iterating
 * Nice to have: experience with logistics, optimization, or simulation-heavy domains
 * Nice to have: background in data engineering or ML platforms
 * Nice to have: experience building developer tools or internal platforms
 * Nice to have: exposure to regulated or security-conscious environments

## Description

* Design and build LLM-driven agents to support planning, optimization, and decision-making workflows
 * Develop agent orchestration patterns, including tools, memory, evaluation, and guardrails
 * Build and maintain RAG pipelines, structured prompting, and retrieval strategies
 * Use simulation as a first-class design tool, including synthetic data, scenario replay, and state machines to validate logic
 * Build end-to-end product features across backend services, APIs, and frontend experiences
 * Create human-in-the-loop interfaces for AI systems, including review, override, and explainability
 * Collaborate closely with Product and Design to ship usable, explainable AI features
 * Own services in production, including performance, reliability, observability, and cost
 * Design systems that are secure, testable, and compliant by default
 * Use infrastructure-as-code and modern CI/CD practices
 * Champion simulation-led design, testability, and fast feedback loops

Technologies:

 * AI
 * Backend
 * CI/CD
 * Frontend
 * Fullstack
 * Support
 * LLM
 * Python
 * RAG
 * Security
 * TypeScript
 * AI Agents
 * AWS
 * Backbone
 * Cloud
 * Django
 * Docker
 * FastAPI
 * GCP
 * GraphQL
 * NodeJS
 * REST
 * React
 * SQL


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