Sr. Software Engineer – AI/ML – AI Platform (EDI)

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential fintech organization seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join their AI Platform team in Edinburgh. In this role, you will drive the end-to-end execution and delivery of AI-native products, moving from initial prototype to scalable production services with high velocity.

Your core responsibilities will include:

• Architecting, building, and productionizing core components of the AI platform, including LLMs and the surrounding ecosystem (vector databases, prompt tuning), agentic frameworks, and core agent capabilities like cross-platform tool use, web browsing, and computer use
• Enforcing technical discipline and operational excellence for all AI products
• Rapidly iterating on AI products based on performance metrics and user feedback to drive continuous improvement
• Leading the evaluation and adoption of new AI technologies and frameworks to keep the organization at the frontier of the industry
• Partnering with product managers and other engineering teams to translate strategic goals into technical realities, abstracting AI complexity to enable rapid iteration

What We're Looking For

Our client is seeking a Senior AI Engineer with extensive professional experience in backend software engineering and a proven track record of owning and shipping complex, production-grade systems. The ideal candidate will have:

• Extensive professional experience in backend software engineering, with expertise in programming languages and technologies like Python, Golang, gRPC, AWS, and Kubernetes
• Proven experience shipping and maintaining AI-native products or features, or demonstrable passion through significant personal projects in AI
• Deep ownership mindset, seeing projects through to completion and raising the bar for execution across the team
• A strong bias for action, with a passion for shipping rapidly and iterating with feedback
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent experience
• Preferred: Specific experience with LLMs and agentic systems
• Preferred: Hands-on experience with technologies in the modern AI/LLM ecosystem, such as Databricks, Langchain, or MLFlow
• Preferred: Advanced understanding of the probabilistic systems underpinning modern LLMs
• Preferred: Experience building AI products in highly accuracy-sensitive domains such as finance

Important: Applicants must have, and maintain, the right to work in the United Kingdom from the first day of employment. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

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Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruiting team.

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