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# Artificial Intelligence Engineer

- **Company:** The Ascent Services Groupdion
- **Location:** Chester, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Software Applications, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Information Engineering, Language Modeling, Performance Tuning, Flask (Web Framework), Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, Software Application Programming, Generative AI, Fastapi, Restful APIs, Microservices
- **Published:** August 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815461318-artificial-intelligence-engineer

## About the Role

We are looking for an experienced AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy enterprise-grade AI applications.

 * The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience building applications using Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, and cloud-based AI services. Experience within Banking or Financial Services is highly desirable., * Frameworks: Lang Chain, Lang Graph, Llama Index. Semantic Kernel (good to have), Crew AI (good to have)
 * AI Concepts: RAG, Vector Databases, Embeddings, Prompt Engineering, AI Agents, Function Calling, MCP (Model Context Protocol), Fine Tuning (preferred)
 * APIs: REST, Fast API, Flask

## Description

* Design and develop AI-powered applications using Large Language Models.
 * Develop AI agents and workflow automation solutions.
 * Create prompt engineering strategies and evaluation frameworks.
 * Develop REST APIs and microservices to expose AI capabilities.
 * Work closely with Data Engineering and Cloud teams.
 * Implement secure, responsible AI practices.
 * Monitor model performance and optimise latency and cost.
 * Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews.


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