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# AI Engineer - Semantic Layer & Agentic AI

- **Company:** Opus Recruitment Solutions
- **Location:** Barking, UK
- **Salary:** £156,000.0 - £182,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Computing Platforms, Microsoft Azure, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Graph Database, Python (Programming Language), Metadata, Neo4j, Standard Sql, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Snowflake, Generative AI, AI Platforms, GPT, Databricks
- **Published:** September 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.co.uk/jobad/gb2a3a953c7b9ecf2a0ba8ea38278ba22d

## About the Role

* Strong Python and SQL skills
 * Experience with AI/ML, LLMs or GenAI applications
 * Knowledge of semantic modelling, knowledge graphs or metadata-driven architectures
 * Experience with RAG, vector databases and modern AI frameworks
 * Exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP

Desirable:

 * Neo4j or graph database experience
 * LangChain, LangGraph or LlamaIndex
 * Databricks, Snowflake or modern data platforms
 * Agentic AI and AI platform engineering

## Description

* Design and develop semantic layers, knowledge graphs and AI-ready data models
 * Build RAG and Agentic AI solutions using modern LLM frameworks
 * Work with Data Engineering teams to create business context across complex datasets
 * Develop scalable retrieval, search and reasoning capabilities for AI applications
 * Contribute to AI governance, data quality and platform architecture


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