AI / ML Engineer

Senior AI / ML Engineer | GenAI, Agentic AI & MLOps

Manchester | Hybrid | 2 Days a week

Long Term Contract

£500 Per Day Inside IR35

We’re looking for a Senior AI / ML Engineer to join a major UK banking client, taking AI solutions from experimentation through to reliable, scalable production.

The role combines hands-on GenAI and agent development with model serving, MLOps and production monitoring.

What you’ll be doing:

• Build enterprise AI applications using LLMs, transformers, RAG and agentic patterns such as ReAct.

• Develop agents with tool calling, memory, reasoning and workflow orchestration.

• Create embedding, semantic retrieval and ranking pipelines.

• Package and serve models using Docker, KServe, Vertex AI endpoints and Kubernetes-based platforms.

• Build repeatable delivery, training and monitoring workflows.

• Optimise inference cost and performance, monitoring quality, drift, latency and fairness.

What we’re looking for:

✅ Strong production Python, API development and automated testing.

✅ Hands-on PyTorch and transformer architecture experience.

✅ Production RAG and agentic AI delivery.

✅ GCP/Vertex AI knowledge and containerised model serving experience.

✅ MLOps expertise covering registries, versioning, monitoring and drift detection.

✅ Experience with autoscaling, GPU scheduling and controlled deployment strategies.

LangChain, LangGraph or LlamaIndex experience would be valuable, alongside delivery within a regulated enterprise.

Interested? Send me a message with your CV for more information.

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