Generative AI Engineer

AI Engineer Location: Manchester (Hybrid) Salary: £55,000 - £70,000 + benefits The Role We are working with a fast-growing technology scale-up in Manchester that is investing heavily in its AI capabilities and building out a team focused on the practical application of Generative AI. They are looking for a hands-on AI Engineer to help design, build, and deploy production-grade AI solutions, with a particular focus on agentic AI, LLMs and intelligent automation . You will work across a variety of projects, developing AI agents, RAG applications, internal tools and intelligent workflows using modern AI technologies. This is a strong opportunity for an engineer who wants genuine ownership and the chance to work with some of the latest developments in AI. Key Responsibilities * Design, build, and deploy production-ready AI applications using LLMs * Develop agentic AI systems , including tool-calling and multi-step agent workflows * Build end-to-end RAG pipelines , including embeddings, retrieval and vector search * Work with frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex or similar * Integrate LLMs and AI services into existing products, APIs and business workflows * Prototype and test new AI capabilities before taking successful solutions into production * Work closely with software, product and data teams to deliver scalable AI solutions * Contribute to the wider AI roadmap and identify opportunities to apply emerging AI technologies * Evaluate and continuously improve the performance, reliability and cost of AI systems Required Skills \& Experience * 3+ years’ experience in AI Engineering, Machine Learning, Software Engineering or a similar role * Strong Python skills and experience building production-quality applications * Hands-on experience working with Generative AI and LLMs * Practical experience building AI agents / agentic workflows * Experience with RAG, embeddings, vector search and prompt engineering * Experience using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex or similar * Experience integrating model APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic or open-source models * Exposure to cloud environments such as AWS, Azure or GCP * Strong software engineering fundamentals, including Git, testing, APIs and deployment * A pragmatic, delivery-focused approach to building real-world AI products Nice to Have * Experience with multi-agent systems and agent orchestration * Exposure to vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant or FAISS * Experience with LLMOps / MLOps , monitoring and evaluation * Familiarity with AI guardrails, evaluation frameworks or model observability * Experience deploying AI applications using Docker and CI/CD * Exposure to fine-tuning or working with open-source LLMs * Previous experience within a high-growth technology or scale-up environment What’s on Offer * Salary up to £75,000 depending on experience * Generous benefits package * Opportunity to join a growing technology scale-up investing heavily in AI * Significant exposure to agentic AI and emerging LLM technologies * High-impact role with genuine ownership over AI products and solutions * Collaborative, technically ambitious environment