LLM EngineerseniorLeeds, England, UKonsitefulltimeSoftware Development and IT Services and IT ConsultingAzure AI FoundryLangChainRAGPrompt EngineeringLLM Fine-tuningPythonC#React.jsposted
ABOUT US
Headquartered in Leeds with capabilities in both India and Saudi Arabia, we deliver AI driven transformation to help our clients accelerate change and unlock competitive advantage.
Our services span software engineering, AI implementation, cloud transformation, and technology strategy development, combining strategic thinking with exceptional delivery.
Our global team is made up of passionate, highly skilled individuals with experience across software engineering, technology strategy, and change management. As we grow our team, we are looking for people who want to be part of a culture that empowers bold thinking, celebrates diverse perspectives, and thrives on innovation.
ABOUT THE ROL
EAs an AI Engineer, you’ll design, build, and deploy AI features that solve complex problems and deliver real value to our customer. Working across a variety of client projects, you’ll apply your expertise in areas such as conversational AI, image and data classification, and scalable model deployment, bringing cutting-edge AI to production environments at scale
.You’ll collaborate closely with our customer engagement and engineering teams to design and build robust, safe, and intuitive AI systems. This is a hands-on role where you’ll be writing code, building pipelines, and iterating quickly based on feedback from real users and stakeholders
.
KEY RESPONSIBILITI
* ESLead the development of AI solutions across multiple client engagement
* s.Collaborate with Abstract Customer Engagement and clients to understand business challenges and translate them into AI-driven solution
* s.Work with client data teams to ingest, clean, and prepare data for modelin
* g.Build and integrate AI solutions using Azure AI Foundry, OneReach.ai, LangChain or similar orchestration frameworks for conversational A
* I.Design and optimise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, including embedding generation, vector database configuration, API, MCP and retrieval tuning to improve accuracy, latency, and relevance in conversational A
* I.Prompt optimisation of closed source LLMs, or post-training of open-source LLMs to build new or improve existing agentic workflo
* wsUnderstand and guide on evaluation frameworks to measure model safety, accuracy, and performance, including recall, precision, F1-score, and other relevant metrics for both conversational AI and classification model
* s.Collaborate with our DevOps team to produce MLOps pipelines to speed up experimentation, deployment, and monitorin
* g.Ship AI models into live production environments and iterate rapidly based on usage, feedback, and metric-driven insight
* s.Write clean, testable, and scalable code in .NET or Python and integrate with backend service
* s.Stay up-to-date with the latest AI research and tools, applying them pragmatically to solve real problem
* s.Design and refine prompts, workflows, and evaluation frameworks for autonomous AI financial analyst
s.
ESSENTIALS SKILLS/EXPERIE
* NCEExperience operating within a senior or lead software engineering position with a full stack developer backgro
* undExperience using React
* .JsAzure Cloud experience of at least 5+ ye
* arsExposure to building AI solutions, with experience shipping production solutio
* ns.Ability to write clean, testable, and scalable code with Python, C# or
* JS.Demonstrable production experience with AI Foundry Orchestration, LangChain, OneReach.ai or similar AI orchestration framewor
* ks.Proven experience developing AI agents and agentic workflows for commercial applicatio
* ns.Experience leading technical projects from design through to production deployme
* nt.Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to confidently present technical solutions and architectures to clients and senior stakeholde
rs.
DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERI
* ENCEExperience with Microsoft Azure, particularly Azure Functions and Azure AI Foun
* dry.Proven experience in designing, implementing, and optimising RAG-based systems, including vector databases, APIs or
* MCP.Experience mentoring or supporting junior engine
ers.
If you don’t meet every listed requirement but think you have the skills to fulfil the role, we still encourage you to apply. We’re looking for people with the right approach, mindset, and ability to
grow.
REMUNERATION AND BE
* NEFITSFlexible Hybrid working structure (3 days in of
* fice).25 days holiday rising an extra day a year up to 30
* days.Base salary commensurate with exper
* ience.Vibrant Leeds City Centre office with games area, fully stocked kitchen, free food and d
* rinks.Regular social events, team lunches, and ou
* tings.Benefits platform offering a range of retail and entertainment dis
counts
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We believe diverse perspectives make us stronger and are proud to offer an inclusive recruitment p
rocess.
If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know and we’ll be happy to supp
ort you.
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