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# Senior AI Engineer / AI Technical Lead

- **Company:** Avanti Recruitment
- **Location:** Reading, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £80,000.0 - £100,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Information Engineering, Graph Database, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Recommender Systems, Transfer Learning, Large Language Models, Model Validation, Low Latency, Machine Learning Operations, Data Pipelines, Human in the Loop
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5932040765

## About the Role

* Strong commercial Python engineering experience.
 * Significant experience building and deploying AI/ML applications in production.
 * Experience designing the architecture of complex AI systems.
 * Hands-on experience with NLP, LLMs and modern AI technologies.
 * Strong understanding of data engineering and cloud infrastructure.
 * Experience building reliable, scalable applications with demanding performance requirements.
 * Ability to explain technical decisions and assess different architectural approaches.
 * Confidence taking ownership of projects and guiding other engineers technically.
 * Experience with knowledge graphs, ontologies, recommendation systems, human-in-the-loop learning or LLM fine-tuning is particularly interesting.
 * Demonstrated ability to take ownership of technically complex systems and deliver them into production; an Architect or Technical Lead title is not required.

## Description

* Design the architecture for new AI-powered features and services.
 * Build production AI/ML systems using Python, NLP and LLM technologies.
 * Develop intelligent document-processing and information-extraction capabilities.
 * Integrate LLMs and retrieval-based approaches into existing product workflows.
 * Design systems that incorporate user feedback to improve recommendations over time.
 * Make architectural decisions around scalability, reliability, latency and cost.
 * Build and optimise data pipelines, model evaluation and monitoring.
 * Work closely with our CTO and wider engineering team, providing technical direction while remaining hands-on.

Technologies:

 * AI
 * Architect
 * Cloud
 * CTO
 * Fine-tuning
 * LLM
 * Python