AI Engineer (Contract) - AI Cloud

Location: London, Manchester, Bristol, Leeds, Edinburgh (Hybrid - 2 days onsite) Duration: 6 months Rate: £475/day The Role We''re looking for an AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy scalable AI/ML and GenAI solutions. You''ll work across the full life cycle-from data pipelines to production-delivering real-world impact in modern cloud environments. Key Responsibilities Build and deploy end-to-end AI/ML solutions Develop LLM/GenAI applications (prompting, fine-tuning, RAG pipelines) Optimise model performance (latency, scalability, cost) Design APIs and microservices for AI integration Implement MLOps/LLMOps pipelines (CI/CD, deployment, monitoring) Ensure Responsible AI and production reliability Required Skills 5-12 years in AI/ML engineering Strong Python experience Hands-on with LLMs/GenAI (eg Gemini, open-source models) Experience with RAG, embeddings, and vector databases API development andamp; microservices architecture CI/CD and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) GCP experience (BigQuery, Vertex AI, Dataflow, Pub/Sub) Nice to Have TensorFlow/PyTorch/Hugging Face MLOps/LLMOps best practices Observability tools (Prometheus, Dynatrace, LangSmith) Security, governance, and performance optimisation experience ..... full job details .....