Staff AI Engineer

Staff AI / GenAI Engineer – Platform EngineeringOur client, a leading global banking organisation, is building a next-generation AI Platform Engineering function responsible for delivering scalable AI capabilities across the business.This is a rare opportunity to join a high-calibre engineering team at the early stages of a major enterprise AI transformation. The team is building cutting-edge GenAI platforms, automation agents, and reusable AI services that will underpin AI adoption across the organisation.Working within a highly innovative, greenfield environment, you will help shape the architecture, tooling, and engineering standards behind enterprise-scale AI systems in a business-critical setting.The successful candidate will be a highly hands-on engineer with strong experience building production-grade AI products and scalable cloud-based systems.Key ResponsibilitiesBuild scalable AI/GenAI platform services and infrastructureDevelop AI-powered applications, automation agents, and enterprise AI workflowsBuild RAG pipelines, vector search capabilities, and orchestration frameworksDevelop backend services and APIs using PythonImplement LLMOps/MLOps best practices including monitoring, evaluation, observability, and guardrailsDesign scalable solutions capable of supporting enterprise-wide adoptionContribute to architecture, technical standards, and platform engineering best practicesRequired ExperienceStrong hands-on Python engineering experienceExperience building and deploying AI/GenAI products in production environmentsStrong knowledge of Azure and DatabricksExperience with RAG architectures, embeddings, vector databases, and prompt engineeringExperience with AI orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or similarStrong backend engineering and cloud infrastructure experienceExperience building scalable enterprise-grade systemsComfortable operating in fast-moving, greenfield environmentsDesirable ExperienceAKS / KubernetesMLflow / LLMOps toolingAI observability and evaluation toolingCustomer-facing AI products or chatbotsFinancial services or regulated environment experience