Kainos

Senior AI Engineer

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28 days 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 on Azure and AWS with Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Engineer pipelines and systems for large-scale, unstructured, and multimodal data.
  • Collaborate with customers to translate business challenges into trustworthy AI solutions.
  • Apply responsible AI, model interpretability, ethical, security, privacy, and compliance practices.
  • Mentor junior developers and provide technical direction while contributing hands-on delivery.
  • Promote modern AI frameworks, AI operations best practices, engineering excellence, and continuous learning.

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 practices including testing and code reviews.
  • Experience developing solutions at scale on Azure and AWS, with Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Expertise in data engineering for AI and handling large-scale, unstructured, and multimodal 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, and XGBoost.
  • Desirable experience with LLM fine-tuning or distillation, vector databases, semantic search, and knowledge graphs.
  • Contributions to open-source AI projects or research publications are desirable.
  • Familiarity with AI security, privacy, and compliance standards such as ISO42001 is desirable.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureDockerKubernetesPythonPyTorchscikit-learnTensorFlowXGBoost

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About Kainos

1,001-5,000 employees
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