AI Innovation Engineer

Job Title: AI Innovation Engineer Location: Manchester, UK (Hybrid – 2 days week onsite) Project Type: Contract Role Purpose : * You'll be part of the team responsible for bringing AI innovation into the hands of millions of players. Working alongside AI researchers and experienced engineers, you'll transform proven concepts into high-quality, production-ready features that power personalised player experiences. * From recommendation systems and intelligent search to AI agents and dynamic content discovery, you'll build and scale the technology that sits behind our products. * This is a senior, hands on role with genuine ownership you'll influence how solutions are designed, built and delivered while working in a collaborative team that's passionate about solving complex engineering challenges with AI. ͏ Areas of Responsibilities : * Take prototypes and validated concepts from R\&D and turn them into production * systems: hardened, tested, observable, and maintainable. * Build and operate real-time personalisation, recommendation, search and ranking * systems against live traffic and within real latency budgets. * Hold a high engineering bar on AWS and TypeScript: clean CI/CD, infrastructure as * code, observability, and testing. * Work closely with R\&D engineers, product managers, data analysts and Staff * Engineers, bridging fast experimental work and production discipline. Experience : * Significant commercial software engineering experience (typically 5+ years) with strong expertise in TypeScript and working knowledge of Python. * Proven experience delivering AI, machine learning or data-driven features into production, such as recommendation engines, search, ranking systems or LLM-powered applications. * Hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native applications on AWS, with a solid understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure as code and production monitoring. * Experience developing and supporting high-performance, real-time systems with a focus on scalability, reliability and low latency. * Experience measuring and evaluating AI model performance, using data and experimentation to drive continuous improvement. Skills \& Behaviours : * A hands-on engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and delivering high-quality, production-ready solutions. * Strong understanding of modern software engineering best practices, with a focus on clean, maintainable and well-tested code. * Comfortable working in a collaborative, cross-functional environment alongside engineers, product teams and AI researchers. * Excellent communication skills, able to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Proactive, curious and continuously looking for opportunities to improve products, processes and the way AI solutions are delivered.