Senior AI Engineer

Portfolio Group Ltd
Manchester, UK
12 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
£80,000.0 - £100,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

LangGraph Framework Artificial Intelligence Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Large Language Models Model Validation Generative AI

Job description

  • Build and improve RAG pipelines, including retrieval strategies, chunking, reranking and grounding.
  • Develop GenAI applications and agentic workflows using LangChain, LangGraph or similar frameworks.
  • Adapt, fine-tune, instruction-tune and optimise models.
  • Design evaluation frameworks to measure retrieval quality, hallucinations, answer accuracy and overall model performance.
  • Experiment with models and approaches to improve reliability, latency and cost.
  • Take AI solutions from development into production in collaboration with engineering and platform teams.

Technologies:

  • AI
  • Azure
  • Fine-tuning
  • RAG
  • Cloud

Requirements

  • Strong experience with model evaluation, experimentation and fine-tuning.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying RAG and GenAI solutions.
  • Good understanding of LLMs, embeddings, vector databases and retrieval techniques.
  • Experience with Azure AI Foundry is advantageous.
  • Ability to solve complex technical problems and explain the reasoning behind your approach.
  • Demonstrated ownership of AI solutions and measurable improvements in model performance.

About the company

We are recruiting for our clients office-based opportunity for a Senior AI Engineer. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building reliable, scalable AI products beyond the proof-of-concept stage, with challenges involving retrieval, model performance, accuracy and evaluation. The Portfolio Group is acting on our clients behalf in recruiting for this position.

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