https://jobs.co.uk/job/senior-applied-ai-engineer-deerfoot-recruitment-solutions-limited--b7c87c5b-b605-446c-910e-2897266284ab RSS feed for Senior Applied AI Engineer at Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Limited. en-gb Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:49:06 GMT https://jobs.co.uk/job/senior-applied-ai-engineer-deerfoot-recruitment-solutions-limited--b7c87c5b-b605-446c-910e-2897266284ab https://jobs.co.uk/job/senior-applied-ai-engineer-deerfoot-recruitment-solutions-limited--b7c87c5b-b605-446c-910e-2897266284ab Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:00:00 GMT Location: Didcot | Salary: £700 - £900/day | Type: Contract | Senior Applied AI Engineer Contract Outside IR35 -700 - -900 per day DOE 6 months + likely extension Oxfordshire (hybrid - 2 days p/w on site) Our client is a rapidly scaling UK deep-tech company delivering advanced agentic AI capability. This role sits in their AI team, working with a commercial customer in biotech and pharma. They are 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 designed in from the start rather than bolted on afterwards Emb... Contract