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# Senior AI Engineer

- **Company:** Searchability
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £100,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Code Review, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Performance Tuning, Microsoft Agent Framework, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, Generative AI, Agentic-AI, AI Platforms, Machine Learning Operations, Graph RAG
- **Published:** October 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=3041486645-2

## About the Role

* Strong Python programming skills
 * Commercial experience with Generative AI, LLMs and RAG
 * Experience building agentic AI systems and workflows
 * Knowledge of prompt engineering, fine-tuning and model optimisation
 * Experience developing and deploying production-grade AI/ML solutions
 * Understanding of AI evaluation and experimentation techniques
 * Strong software engineering fundamentals and technical leadership experience
 * Azure AI Foundry, Graph-RAG or Microsoft Agent Framework experience advantageous, Python, Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI, Machine Learning, Azure AI Foundry, Graph-RAG, Prompt Engineering, Fine-Tuning, AI Engineering

## Description

You'll be responsible for designing, developing and optimising production-grade AI solutions, with a focus on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Large Language Models and agentic workflows.

Working alongside AI Platform Engineers and wider technical teams, you'll develop RAG pipelines, improve retrieval strategies, implement model fine-tuning techniques and establish evaluation frameworks to ensure AI solutions are accurate, scalable and reliable.

You'll also contribute to technical decisions, code reviews and mentoring other engineers.