Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer

The Role Our client, a leading and award-winning SaaS provider, are looking for a full-time Senior AI Engineer. You will set the technical direction for everything AI — both how AI is built into their Platform and how AI is used across the company to build better software, faster. You will define the patterns, choose the foundations and raise the bar for everyone working on AI-powered features. This is a pure individual contributor role with no direct reports. Your impact will come from the systems you design, the standards you set, and the engineers and product teams you bring along with you. Education & Experience - Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics or a related field (or equivalent practical experience) - .10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with several of them spent designing and shipping AI / ML systems in production - .Demonstrated experience as a Staff, Principal or Architect-level IC — you have owned the design of AI systems and led engineers across teams without direct authority Core Skills Required - Hands-on experience building production systems with modern LLMs: RAG, agents, tool use, function calling, structured outputs, evaluation and observability - Strong opinion on AI evaluation: you have built or operated evaluation harnesses (offline + online) and you know what good looks like - Solid grounding in distributed systems: APIs, messaging, latency, throughput, caching, backpressure, multi-tenancy - Production experience with Kubernetes-based platforms — including how to fit GPU / inference workloads into a cloud-native runtime - A pragmatic view on cost, latency and quality trade-offs across hosted and self-hosted models - Clear understanding of AI risk: privacy, security, prompt injection, data leakage, fairness, compliance (GDPR and similar) - Excellent written and verbal communication: you can write a clear RFC, run a productive design review, and explain trade-offs to engineers, product and executives - A track record of growing engineers and shifting how an organisation works — your influence is documented, not just remembered .