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# Senior AI Platform Engineer

- **Company:** The Wave
- **Location:** Greater London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £115,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Systems Integration, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Generative AI, AI Platforms, Kubernetes, Serverless Computing
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840612302-senior-ai-platform-engineer

## About the Role

* Strong platform and cloud engineering background - AWS preferred, but open on background if the fundamentals are there
 * Solid Kubernetes experience (around 80% of the role), with some serverless on top
 * Hands-on experience with LLM-based applications - RAG, vector databases, agent frameworks
 * Product-minded and commercially aware - this isn't a pure SRE or ops profile
 * Comfortable working across Data Science, Engineering, Product, and Security stakeholders

## Description

* Designing and building cloud infrastructure for hosting and serving ML and GenAI models at scale
 * Owning the LLM gateway - standardising model usage, monitoring, cost control, and quotas across the business
 * Building frameworks and tooling that make AI development consistent and governable
 * Integrating and evaluating third-party AI tools and agent frameworks
 * Shaping Responsible AI practices into the platform from day one


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