Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Senior AI Engineer (GenAI) — Contract Location: Mid Sussex (hybrid, 3 days on-site per week) Duration: 6 months Rate: £575–£625 per day About the role We're looking for an experienced GenAI Engineer to design and build AI-powered applications on top of Large Language Models and modern AI frameworks. You'll take solutions from concept through to scalable, production-grade systems, working with a cross-functional team to deliver something secure and genuinely usable at scale. What you'll be doing • Designing and developing GenAI applications using OpenAI / Azure OpenAI or equivalent LLM platforms • Building multi-agent solutions with agent-orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph • Creating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines over enterprise knowledge using embeddings and vector search • Developing scalable Python backend services and REST APIs • Integrating AI into existing business systems, databases and third-party APIs • Optimising prompts, retrieval quality, latency and cost for live production workloads What we're looking for • Strong Python and backend development experience • Hands-on experience with OpenAI / Azure OpenAI, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings and vector search • Proven experience building agentic AI with LangGraph or similar (LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI) • Experience with vector databases (pgvector, Azure AI Search, Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, FAISS, Milvus or OpenSearch) • Cloud (Azure / AWS / GCP), Docker and Kubernetes • Solid grasp of API integration, tool/function calling and agent orchestration Nice to have • Model Context Protocol (MCP) • Kafka or event-driven architectures • MLOps, LLM evaluation, observability and monitoring To apply or find out more, get in touch. #ContractJobs #AIJobs #GenAI #AIEngineer #LangGraph #Python #RAG #LLM #MachineLearning #Hiring #TechRecruitment #ContractRole