
Senior AI Engineer
NowVertical Group2 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement multi-agent systems using Google AI SDKs, Vertex AI Agent Builder, LangGraph, CrewAI, and related orchestration frameworks.
- Build production-grade LLM applications including RAG pipelines, specialized agents, developer copilots, and tool-augmented workflows.
- Design agent memory, planning, routing, prompting, guardrails, and cross-agent communication patterns.
- Develop reusable AI microservices, agent frameworks, standardized APIs, model routing, observability, and safety capabilities.
- Deploy and manage AI systems across GCP, Azure, and AWS using Docker, Kubernetes, and Cloud Run.
- Implement monitoring and observability, optimize latency, token cost, and quality, and lead incident response and post-mortems.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and shape AI engineering architecture and standards.
Requirements
- 5–8 years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years focused on production LLM-based or AI systems.
- Proven experience building and shipping RAG pipelines, autonomous agents, and multi-step reasoning chains.
- Strong hands-on experience with Google AI SDKs, Vertex AI, and/or Azure AI services.
- Deep proficiency with LangGraph, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, Haystack, or comparable orchestration frameworks.
- Expert-level Python and strong backend development experience with FastAPI, Go, or Node.js.
- Experience with agent planning, reflection, memory, tool use, enterprise API integration, event-driven systems, and debugging non-deterministic AI workflows.
- Familiarity with GCP and/or Azure services, including GKE, Cloud Run, and Azure AI services.
- Experience with Terraform or Pulumi and automated AI model evaluation and deployment pipelines.
- Preferred experience with vector databases, data pipelines, and ETL/ELT for RAG and fine-tuning data.
- Ability to take technical ownership, mentor engineers, and build resilient, observable, production-ready AI systems.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and performance incentives.
- Health and wellness benefits.
- Flexible hybrid working environment in the UK.
- Exposure to global clients and cutting-edge AI projects.
- Ongoing learning and development support.