Principal AI Engineer

About the job

Principal AI Engineer

London

12 Month Contract

Outside IR35

About the role

Join a major global financial services organisation to build production AI solutions supporting trading and investment decision-making.

You’ll work with historical customer activity and market data to develop AI-driven recommendations that can support trading decisions.

This is a senior, hands-on engineering role. You’ll shape the technical approach, work directly with stakeholders and remain involved in the coding and build.

What you’ll be doing

• Build production-grade AI and ML solutions in Python
• Develop predictive and recommendation models using customer and market data
• Apply LLM, agentic AI and RAG technologies where relevant
• Define model evaluation, monitoring and controls
• Take AI solutions through governance, validation and production approval
• Integrate new AI capabilities into an existing enterprise environment

What they’re looking for

• Strong commercial AI / ML engineering experience
• Excellent production-level Python
• Proven experience taking AI or ML systems into production
• Strong machine learning fundamentals
• Experience with LLM and agentic AI tooling
• Experience with model governance, validation or production approval
• Comfortable owning technical direction while remaining hands-on

Capital Markets, trading or regulated financial services experience would be highly beneficial.

Apply now to be considered ASAP.