https://jobs.co.uk/job/senior-ai-engineer-deerfoot-recruitment-solutions-limited--e02a8ca7-6b91-44ce-88c5-696227232d16 RSS feed for Senior AI Engineer at Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Limited. en-gb Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:55:55 GMT https://jobs.co.uk/job/senior-ai-engineer-deerfoot-recruitment-solutions-limited--e02a8ca7-6b91-44ce-88c5-696227232d16 https://jobs.co.uk/job/senior-ai-engineer-deerfoot-recruitment-solutions-limited--e02a8ca7-6b91-44ce-88c5-696227232d16 Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:00:00 GMT Location: Oxfordshire | Salary: £800 - £900/day outside IR35 | Type: Contract | Senior AI Engineer Contract - Outside IR35 - 6 months+ c. -900/day - Oxfordshire (Hybrid 2 days a week in the office) Our client is a rapidly scaling UK deep-tech company delivering advanced AI capability into some of the most consequence-heavy environments: defence and national security, critical national infrastructure, and enterprise clients whose decisions carry real weight. They''re hiring a Senior Applied AI Engineer to take ownership of the agentic AI systems underpinning their platform, on a contract basis, with genuine influence over how those systems are architected and delivered. This role suits an engineer who designs and ships systems rather than assembling pre-built components - someone who cares more about how a system performs once it''s live and under pressure than how impressive it looks in a demo. What You''ll Be Doing - Architecting and building multi-agent AI systems end-to-end, combining frameworks such as LangGraph or Haystack where they add value with bespoke orchestration, state management and tool-calling logic where a framework won''t cut it - Writing production-grade code with reliability, latency and graceful failure handling designe... Contract