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# Data&AIEngineer

- **Company:** Annapurna IT
- **Location:** Greater London, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Software Applications, Data Cleansing, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Unstructured Data, Enterprise Software Applications, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Data Management, Software Coding
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2856365105-dataaiengineer

## About the Role

* Python software development - Strong, production-level coding skills to build reliable, maintainable AI services.
 * End-to-end software delivery - Experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and operating production-grade systems.
 * AI/LLM application development - Hands-on experience creating AI or LLM-based applications used by real users, not just experimenting with consumer tools.
 * AI system lifecycle - Exposure to prototyping, data preparation, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement of AI systems.
 * AI evaluation and metrics - Ability to design and run evaluations, and measure model/agent quality, reliability, safety, and business impact.
 * Working with multiple model providers - Understanding of different model families, trade-offs in latency, cost, context limits, and deployment constraints.
 * Prompt and agent design - Experience treating prompts and agent instructions as versioned, testable software artifacts.
 * Systems integration - Integrating AI with APIs, enterprise applications, data platforms, and both structured and unstructured data.
 * Advanced AI techniques - Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling, structured outputs, agent orchestration, and workflow automation.
 * Model adaptation foundations - Understanding when to use prompting, retrieval, fine-tuning, and how to prepare and evaluate data and models for post-training.
 * Business and data understanding - Ability to grasp complex workflows, rules, and processes, and translate them into AI-enabled solutions.

## Description

Our client is seeking a pragmatic, hands-on Data & AI Engineer to design, build, and operate AI-powered applications and agents that solve real business problems. You'll join our client's team to enhance existing AI solutions, create new AI capabilities that improve workflows and decision-making, and work closely with business stakeholders and engineers to embed domain expertise into robust, production-grade AI systems.


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