AI Platform Engineer
Nextech Group Ltd
Wilmslow, United Kingdom
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Compensation
£ 65KJob location
Wilmslow, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Java
API
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Azure
Cloud Computing
Continuous Integration
Python
Software Deployment
Software Engineering
Large Language Models
Prompt Engineering
Build Management
Containerization
AI Platforms
Kubernetes
Docker
Job description
- Design and build scalable back-end services and APIs to support AI/LLM-powered features
- Develop and maintain infrastructure for deploying, monitoring, and scaling AI models in production
- Integrate cloud-hosted or locally hosted LLMs into live products
- Build RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and prompt/conversation systems
- Collaborate with data, product, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Implement CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability for AI-driven services
- Own the full lifecycle from experimentation and prototyping through to production deployment
Technologies:
- AI
- AWS
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Docker
- GCP
- Support
- Java
- Kubernetes
- LLM
- Python
- RAG
Requirements
- Strong commercial experience with Python and/or Java, plus cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Hands-on experience with LLM-based application development, including RAG, agents, and copilots
- Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, and prompt engineering
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration such as Docker and Kubernetes is a plus
- Strong understanding of scalable, production-grade system design
- Comfortable working across experimentation and live deployment environments
Benefits & conditions
We are a growing technology company based in Cambridge, building AI-powered products and internal tooling. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, hybrid working, and the opportunity to shape our AI strategy and architecture from the ground up. You will join a collaborative, innovation-focused culture while helping us scale the infrastructure and systems behind our AI and LLM-driven applications.