AI Engineer

scrumconnect ltd
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Business Logic Microsoft Azure Encodings Python (Programming Language) Open Source Technology Large Language Models Prompt Engineering Software Application Programming Kubernetes
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Enterprise Integration Api Design Automation Anywhere

Job description

Build & Integrate

Implement RAG pipelines, prompt templates, and agentic workflows, and wire them into application logic that connects with the department’s legacy and multi-cloud systems.

Prompt Engineering & Evaluation

Design, test, and iterate on prompts and retrieval strategies; run structured evaluations to track answer quality, retrieval accuracy, and hallucination rate over time.

Responsible AI in Practice

Implement the specific guardrails and human-in-the-loop checkpoints defined by the leads - this is an execution role, not a policy-setting one.

Requirements

  • Practical experience building applications using LLMs or other foundation models, via API or self-hosted
  • Experience with RAG architectures, vector databases, and embedding-based retrieval
  • Solid general-purpose programming (commonly Python) and API design/integration skills
  • Prompt engineering with a systematic, evaluation-driven approach rather than trial and error
  • Familiarity with agentic/orchestration frameworks and multi-step AI workflows
  • Comfortable working within secure, regulated environments and handling sensitive data appropriately, * Experience delivering digital services within UK central government or the wider public sector
  • Familiarity with GOV.UK Service Standard expectations
  • Exposure to open-source LLM tooling or communities
  • Familiarity with AI/ML tooling on AWS, Azure, or GCP

About the company

Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful and innovative technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens.

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