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# AI Engineer

- **Company:** Ronald James
- **Location:** Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** £60,000.0 - £85,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Software as a Service, Databases, Continuous Integration, Node.Js, OpenAI, Software Safety, TypeScript, AWS Cdk, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, Software Application Programming, Llamaindex, Generative AI, Backend, Agentic-AI, Build Management, Asynchronous Programming, Evaluation of Large Language Models, Restful APIs, Model Context Protocol, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Docker
- **Published:** October 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/ai-engineer/57449587

## About the Role

* Hands-on experience building applications with LLMs, using tools such as OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain or LlamaIndex.
 * Strong backend development skills, ideally with TypeScript and Node.js.
 * Full-stack experience, with some familiarity with React.
 * Experience with REST APIs, asynchronous programming and databases.
 * Understanding of software testing, deployment and production-ready development.
 * A practical, hands-on approach to AI experimentation and AI-assisted coding.

Desirable Experience

 * Model Context Protocol (MCP) and AI agents.
 * AWS, particularly Lambda, SQS/SNS, Bedrock or S3.
 * Vector databases, embeddings and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
 * Prompt engineering and LLM evaluation.
 * Docker, CI/CD and multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
 * AI safety, governance and responsible AI practices.

Interested in building practical AI solutions that make a real difference? We're keen to hear from engineers who enjoy experimenting with emerging technologies and turning them into useful, scalable products.
Skills

 * AI Agent Development
 * AWS CDK
 * Node.js Development
 * TypeScript

## Description

We're looking for an AI Engineer to build and deliver AI-powered features for a large-scale enterprise SaaS platform. You'll work closely with Product, Design and Engineering to turn ideas into reliable, production-ready solutions that improve the user experience.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys experimenting with AI, building prototypes and taking them through to production., * Build and deploy AI-powered features from prototype to production.

 * Develop LLM integrations, agents, tool use and orchestration workflows.
 * Build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
 * Work with Product and Engineering to identify meaningful AI opportunities.
 * Contribute to AI development practices, internal tooling and technical decisions.