Senior AI Engineer

Portfolio Group Ltd
Manchester, UK
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
8 years minimum
Compensation
£80,000 - £100,000
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

LangGraph Framework Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Microsoft Azure Python (Programming Language) Machine Learning Tensorflow Software Deployment Pytorch LangChain Retrieval-Augmented Generation Large Language Models
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Deep Learning Model Validation Llamaindex Generative AI Kubernetes Api Design

Job description

We’re looking for an experienced Senior AI Engineer to join a growing AI function where the focus is on building intelligent, reliable and scalable solutions that solve real business problems.

This role is for someone who enjoys the difficult engineering challenges behind generative AI: improving retrieval, reducing hallucinations, fine-tuning models and proving that changes genuinely improve performance.

You won’t just be experimenting with the latest frameworks. You’ll be designing, building, evaluating and improving AI systems that are intended to deliver measurable results.

What will you be working on?

  • Building and optimising production-grade RAG pipelines, including retrieval, chunking, reranking and grounding.
  • Developing advanced GenAI applications and agentic workflows using LangChain, LangGraph and LlamaIndex.
  • Working on model training, fine-tuning, instruction tuning and optimisation.
  • Designing robust model evaluation frameworks covering accuracy, reliability, consistency and overall response quality.
  • Measuring retrieval performance, hallucination rates, groundedness, robustness and safety.
  • Exploring evaluation approaches including BERTScore, human-in-the-loop testing and automated evaluation.
  • Experimenting with models and architectures to improve performance, latency and cost efficiency.
  • Taking ownership of technical solutions from initial design through to production deployment and continuous improvement.
  • Collaborating with engineers and stakeholders to solve complex AI challenges.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on Python engineering experience.
  • Proven commercial experience delivering GenAI, LLM or RAG solutions into production.
  • Practical experience using LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex or comparable orchestration frameworks.
  • Genuine experience in model evaluation, testing and performance improvement.
  • Exposure to model fine-tuning, adaptation or training, with an understanding of when these approaches are appropriate.
  • Strong understanding of embeddings, vector databases, retrieval architectures and LLM behaviour.
  • The ability to explain your technical decisions, evaluate trade-offs and demonstrate the impact of your work.

Experience with Azure AI Foundry would be advantageous.

Why join?

You’ll be joining a business that’s actively investing in AI, with the opportunity to own complex technical challenges and directly influence how AI solutions are built and improved.

You’ll work closely with an ambitious engineering team, contribute to key architectural decisions and have the space to experiment, challenge existing approaches and deliver meaningful improvements.

We’re not looking for someone who can simply connect an LLM to an API. We’re looking for an engineer who understands how to make AI accurate, reliable and production-ready., * API Development

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Communication Skills
  • Large Language Models (LLM)
  • Machine Learning
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Problem Solving
  • Python Programming
  • Stakeholder Management
  • TensorFlow & PyTorch Deep Learning

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