Senior AI Engineer

Senior AI Engineer (Contract)Rate: £700/dayIR35 Status: Outside IR35Duration: 6 months (with high likelihood of extension)Location: Hybrid/Remote options available (UK-based)Security Clearance: DV ClearedThe RoleWe are looking for a Senior AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy production-ready GenAI applications and multi-agent systems within secure environments. This role requires a strong hybrid of advanced AI orchestration and robust cloud-native engineering, specifically focusing on scaling workloads via Kubernetes.Because of the nature of this work, you must hold active UK Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance to be considered.Key ResponsibilitiesAgentic Workflows: Design, implement, and optimize multi-agent frameworks and stateful LLM applications.Kubernetes Orchestration: Containerize, deploy, and scale AI models, APIs, and microservices across production Kubernetes (K8s) clusters.Infrastructure andamp; Scaling: Configure K8s workloads for high availability, managing resource limits, GPU provisioning, and autoscaling for heavy LLM inference workloads.Secure Engineering: Build robust, clean Python codebases that comply with strict data security and air-gapped environment protocols within containerized environments.MLOps andamp; LLMOps: Establish monitoring, evaluation, and CI/CD pipelines specifically for tracking LLM latency, cost, and hallucination rates.What We''re Looking ForCore Kubernetes Expertise: Extensive experience managing, scaling, and debugging ..... full job details .....