Senior Applied AI Engineer

Senior Applied AI Engineer - Edinburgh (Remote) Competitive Salary + Excellent Package AI Connect are partnering with a global brand to help them appoint an Applied AI Engineer to join a team building next generation customer facing ML \& agentic applications. You'll play a key role in taking cutting-edge Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Generative AI models from research into production. This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll design, build and operate scalable AI systems that support millions of customer interactions. What You'll Do * Design, build and deploy production-grade AI and Machine Learning systems. * Productionise ML, Deep Learning and Generative AI models developed by the Applied AI Research team. * Build scalable training, evaluation and inference pipelines to support the full AI lifecycle. * Develop APIs and software components that expose AI capabilities to enterprise applications. * Optimise AI systems for scalability, reliability, latency and operational performance. * Build robust monitoring, observability and operational tooling to support AI systems in production. * Contribute to engineering best practice across testing, automation, CI/CD and cloud deployments. Key Skills \& Experience * Strong software engineering background with advanced Python development skills. * Experience building and deploying Machine Learning or AI systems into production environments. * Experience building AI pipelines including model training, evaluation, deployment and inference. * Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, including containerised environments using Docker and Kubernetes. * Experience building APIs using frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask. * Good understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and cloud deployment practices (Git, Jenkins, Terraform or similar). * Experience monitoring and operating production AI systems.