Artificial Intelligence Engineer

AI Engineer I Central London I Contract £900 - £1,200/day Inside IR35 A leading global investment firm is looking for an AI Engineers to join a small, high-trust engineering team building out its in-house AI platform, replacing outsourced delivery with owned, production-grade capability. The Role You'll design, build and maintain core AI platform components, an LLM gateway, MCP connector layer, observability tooling and a privacy proxy, and develop the connectors that let AI tools safely and securely interact with the firm's data across systems including M365, Salesforce, and major financial data providers. You'll work closely with business teams to turn real use cases into governed, production-ready AI tools, and help embed spec-driven development practices across the team - writing clear specifications before building, with strong test coverage. What You'll Bring * Hands-on production experience with LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, or similar) * Strong Python engineering skills - API design, data pipelines, cloud-native development (Azure preferred) * Experience with agentic frameworks, tool use, and MCP or equivalent connector patterns (desirable) * Familiarity with observability and evaluation tooling for AI systems * Understanding of data platforms (Databricks or similar) and how to expose data safely to LLMs * Security and governance awareness - prompt injection, data boundary controls, RBAC * Comfortable working end-to-end in a small, high-trust team