AI Engineer – Contract, Inside IR35
United Kingdom
Contract
16 hours ago
No Sponsorship
Key skills
Distributed SystemsDockerKubernetesMicroservicesPythonAIMLComputer VisionLLMMLOpsCI/CDMentoring
About this role
Role Overview
- Write clean, well-tested, production-ready code while setting high standards and mentoring engineers in AI design and delivery.
- Own system design, delivery, and evolution; resolve complex performance, scalability, and integration challenges.
- Build and operate reliable infrastructure using practical DevOps and MLOps practices to monitor, optimize, and improve production AI solutions.
- Communicate technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders and ensure smooth user experiences.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong backend expertise.
- Strong proficiency in Python, with solid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and secure software design.
- Proven experience integrating AI/LLM-based services into production; experience in ML or computer vision is beneficial but not essential.
- Experience with DevOps/MLOps tooling (CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, monitoring, logging) and comfort owning complex technical problems end-to-end.
Tech Stack
- Distributed Systems
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Microservices
- Python