Generative AI Engineer
Salary: £70,000 + benefits
Location: London / Sheffield
Type: Hybrid
We are supporting a growing technology organisation that is hiring a Generative AI Engineer to help design, build, and deploy production-ready GenAI solutions.
This hybrid role can be based from London or Sheffield and is ideal for an AI Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, or Software Engineer with 3 to 5 years of experience working across Generative AI, LLMs, Python, APIs, and cloud-based AI applications.
Generative AI Engineer Role Overview
As a Generative AI Engineer, you will work on the development of practical AI solutions that use large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents, automation, and intelligent search.
You will help move AI use cases from prototype into production, working closely with product teams, software engineers, data specialists, and business stakeholders.
The role will suit someone who is hands-on, commercially aware, and confident building AI-enabled applications that solve real business problems.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy Generative AI solutions using LLMs and modern AI frameworks.
- Build applications using Python, APIs, prompt engineering, RAG, and AI agent workflows.
- Work with cloud platforms to support scalable AI deployment.
- Integrate GenAI features into existing products, platforms, and business systems.
- Build and maintain data pipelines, vector search, embeddings, and knowledge retrieval workflows.
- Support experimentation, model evaluation, testing, monitoring, and optimisation.
- Work with software engineering teams to ensure AI solutions are reliable, secure, and production-ready.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to turn business requirements into practical AI solutions.
Required Skills and Experience
- 3 to 5 years of experience in AI engineering, machine learning engineering, software engineering, or data-focused development.
- Hands-on experience with Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, or AI agents.
- Strong Python development experience.
- Experience working with APIs and integrating AI services into applications.
- Understanding of embeddings, vector databases, semantic search, and retrieval workflows.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Good understanding of software engineering best practices, testing, version control, and deployment.
- Ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Desirable Skills
- Experience with OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, or similar tools.
- Experience deploying AI models or AI applications into production.
- Knowledge of MLOps, CI/CD, monitoring, and model evaluation.
- Experience with containerisation tools such as Docker or Kubernetes.
- Understanding of AI governance, responsible AI, data privacy, and security considerations.
Apply for this Generative AI Engineer Role
If you are a Generative AI Engineer, AI Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, or Software Engineer with hands-on GenAI experience, this London or Sheffield hybrid role could be a strong fit.
