AI Engineer

About Scrumconnect Consulting Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful and innovative technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. Overview We''re looking for an AI Engineer to build the application-level AI capability inside a large-scale AI adoption programme for a central government department. Where the Machine Learning Engineer trains models and the MLOps Engineer runs the platform, you sit closest to the end product: turning LLMs, retrieval systems, and agentic workflows into working, usable features that integrate with the department''s existing services. You''ll work inside a collaborative "Rainbow Team" alongside civil servants, implementing the guardrails and standards set by the Lead AI Engineer and Lead Technical Architect. Key Responsibilities Build andamp; Integrate Implement RAG pipelines, prompt templates, and agentic workflows, and wire them into application logic that connects with the department''s Legacy and multi-cloud systems. Prompt Engineering andamp; Evaluation Design, test, and iterate on prompts and retrieval strategies; run structured evaluations to track answer quality, retrieval accuracy, and hallucination rate over time.Responsible AI in PracticeImplement the specific guardrails and human-in-the-loop checkpoints defined by the leads - this is an execution role, not a policy-setting ..... full job details .....