AI Engineer

Contract Job Title: AI Engineer (Google ADK, LLM, ML, A2A) Contract Start Date: TBC Contract Length: Likely 6 months Contract Classification: Inside IR35 Contract Location: Glasgow (2/3 days in the office) · Design, build, and deploy AI agents using Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Vertex AI Agent Builder, integrating with APIs and systems. · Develop and orchestrate Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication flows, enabling collaboration, task delegation, and information sharing among agents. · Implement LLM-based components, prompt templates, function calling, structured outputs using frameworks. · Build and optimize RAG pipelines integrating Vertex AI Search / Matching Engine, vector databases and document stores. · Engineer context and memory modules for agents, defining knowledge retrieval, embedding strategies, and session continuity logic. · Develop API integrations and connectors enabling real-time data exchange between agents, backend services, and UI/UX interfaces. · Collaborate with data and ML teams to design ML workflows preprocessing, fine-tuning, deployment, and monitoring on Vertex AI Pipelines. · Apply prompt engineering and grounding techniques to ensure model responses are contextually accurate, explainable, and compliant. · Ensure scalability, observability, and compliance of deployed agents across hybrid (cloud + on-prem) infrastructures. · Partner with Data Engineers, UI/UX teams, AI Architects and Product teams to translate business requirements into technical agent logic, testing strategies, and continuous improvement loops. · Experience with handling quantitative / numerically heavy use cases · Experience with banking related AI/GenAI use cases