Kainos

Senior AI Engineer

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3 months ago
Birmingham, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Deliver advanced machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI solutions into production.
  • Apply prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, model evaluation, monitoring metrics, and drift detection.
  • Develop scalable AI solutions using cloud-native architectures, containerisation, and orchestration.
  • Handle large-scale, unstructured, and multimodal data for AI applications.
  • Collaborate with customers to translate business challenges into trustworthy AI solutions.
  • Apply responsible AI, model interpretability, security, privacy, and ethical practices.
  • Mentor junior developers and contribute to innovation, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.

Requirements

  • A minimum 2:1 degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Statistics, or a similar quantitative field.
  • Demonstrable experience deploying modern AI and machine learning solutions into production.
  • Strong Python skills and grounding in software engineering best practices, including testing and code reviews.
  • Experience developing solutions at scale on Azure and AWS, with Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Expertise in data engineering for large-scale, unstructured, and multimodal AI data.
  • Understanding of responsible AI principles, model interpretability, and ethical considerations.
  • Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills.
  • Desirable: experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, GPT, Llama, Claude, Gemini, scikit-learn, XGBoost, vector databases, semantic search, knowledge graphs, AI security, privacy, compliance standards, open-source AI projects, or research publications.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureDockerKubernetesPythonPyTorchscikit-learnTensorFlowXGBoost
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About Kainos

1,001-5,000 employees

Kainos is a Belfast-headquartered, publicly listed IT services company that designs and delivers digital services and Workday solutions for public, healthcare and commercial clients. Its business includes agile software engineering, cloud and data platforms, systems integration, and a Workday implementation and testing practice (including the Smart automated testing product). Founded in 1986 and listed on the London Stock Exchange, Kainos operates across the UK, Europe and North America.

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