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# AI Engineer

- **Company:** Buildretrieval-augmented
- **Location:** Rochdale, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Python (Programming Language), Regression Testing, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering
- **Published:** October 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/ai-engineer/49639247

## About the Role

You ship production LLM features end-to-end - retrieval, prompting, tool-calling, evaluation and the boring-but-critical plumbing that makes them fast, cheap and reliable. You care about latency, cost and correctness in equal measure.What you'll buildRetrieval-augmented features that turn messy business documents into decisions.Tool-calling agents that safely operate inside our customers' workflows.Evaluation datasets and regression tests for every prompt in production.Instrumentation that lets us reason about cost, latency and quality per feature.Requirements4+ years software engineering; 1+ shipping LLM features to real users.Fluent in Python or TypeScript; comfortable across both.Understand embeddings, retrieval, prompt design and evaluation.Rigorous about testing, observability and cost.Right to work in the UK. #J-18808-Ljbffr