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# AI Engineer

- **Company:** Primus Connect
- **Location:** Bolton, UK
- **Salary:** £143,000.0 - £169,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Data Logging, Multi-Agent Systems, Pyspark, Machine Learning Operations, Api Management, Databricks
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2902053464-ai-engineer

## About the Role

* Proven experience building AI agents on Databricks - multi-agent solutions strongly preferred
 * Hands-on MLflow experience, including model registry
 * Unity Catalog and AI Gateway (or equivalent governance tooling)
 * Strong general Databricks knowledge - compute management, logging and monitoring
 * Strong Python and PySpark
 * Excellent consulting skills - communication, people leadership and technical advisory, with the confidence to lead a client's team through a technical journey

Desirable

 * Machine learning / MLOps experience - useful if the engagement extends into its ML-focused second phase
 * API management experience

What Makes a Great Fit

 * A genuine consulting mindset - confident bringing a client's team along with you, not just delivering in isolation
 * Manchester-based or a comfortable commute - travel and expenses are covered for on-site days

## Description

We're looking for an experienced AI Engineer to join a specialist Databricks delivery team on a high-profile agentic AI engagement. You'll sit alongside a Business Analyst, Solution Architect and Data Engineer, leading a well-established client through the deployment of a multi-agent AI solution built natively on Databricks.

This is a hands-on consulting role: refining an already-scoped solution design, building and pairing directly with the client's engineers, and coaching their team so they can confidently take the solution forward. There's a strong chance to extend into a second, machine-learning-focused phase of the engagement for the right candidate., * Refine and finalise the design of a multi-agent solution on Databricks

 * Lead hands-on delivery - building, testing and deploying agentic AI workflows
 * Pair-program and hand-hold the client's engineering team through implementation
 * Instruct and guide client engineers, then review and feedback on their work
 * Apply strong governance practices using Unity Catalog and AI Gateway


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