Senior Data and AI Engineer
Role Overview
The employer is an AI and data consultancy serving investment managers, pension schemes, and financial institutions.
The consultancy delivers AI-powered products, data solutions, and intelligent automation.
The Senior Data and AI Engineer will build AI-powered solutions for client projects and proprietary products.
The role combines practical AI implementation, software engineering, data technologies, and stakeholder collaboration.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Overview
The employer is an AI and data consultancy serving investment managers, pension schemes, and financial institutions.
The consultancy delivers AI-powered products, data solutions, and intelligent automation.
The Senior Data and AI Engineer will build AI-powered solutions for client projects and proprietary products.
The role combines practical AI implementation, software engineering, data technologies, and stakeholder collaboration.
Workplace and Team
- The role is hybrid in London, with attendance expected one to two days per week.
- The engineer will work in a collaborative team with autonomy and opportunities to influence outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Build AI-powered solutions for client projects and proprietary products.
- Use prompt engineering, output evaluation, reliability improvements, and large language model integration in production systems.
- Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to solve complex business problems using data and AI technologies.
- Contribute to both client solutions and proprietary product development.
- Help influence technical direction and product development within a growing consultancy.
Key Requirements
- 4-5 or more years of commercial software engineering experience.
- Strong Python development skills.
- Experience building AI-powered applications using large language models.
- Strong prompt engineering capabilities.
- Experience evaluating model outputs and mitigating hallucinations.
- Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders and clients.
- Self-starter mentality with a high degree of ownership.
- Passion for AI and emerging technologies.
Desirable Experience
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation experience.
- Data engineering and large-scale data ingestion experience.
- Experience with Azure or Google Cloud.
- Exposure to financial services, ESG, or investment industries.
- Experience with data modelling and architecture.
Why Join
- Work with current AI technologies on real-world projects.
- Join a growing consultancy with a small, collaborative engineering team and direct access to leadership.
- Contribute to proprietary products and client solutions in an engineering environment that embraces AI tools and workflows.
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