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Senior AI Engineer

Senior AI Engineer

Remote

England, United kingdom

£ 80,000 /year

Senior

Full Time

10-02-2026

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Skills

CI/CD Monitoring Research NLP

Job Specifications

Title: Senior AI Engineer

Salary: Up to £80,000 D.O.E

Location: UK (fully remote)

Are you passionate about building AI that makes a real impact?

if so...

We're looking for a Senior AI Engineer to design, develop, and deploy production ready NLP and LLM systems for a fast-growing technology company in a high-trust, regulated domain.

This hands-on role bridges research and real-world delivery, giving you the chance to turn experiments into reliable, scalable solutions that genuinely help people.

What you'll do

Build and fine-tune NLP & LLM-powered systems
Take models from prototype to production-ready services
Create RAG pipelines, evaluation tooling, and prompt testing frameworks
Monitor performance, cost, reliability, and drift in live environments
Implement explainability and bias mitigation in sensitive domains
Collaborate across AI, MLOps, Data, and Product teams
Mentor junior engineers and help shape the team's AI best practices

What we're looking for

Hands-on experience shipping NLP/LLM models into production
Strong knowledge of fine-tuning, RAG, agents and applied AI
Experience with MLOps practices (CI/CD, monitoring, retraining, drift detection)
Ability to turn research into robust, scalable solutions
Passion for using technology to make a real difference.

What you get:

Salary up to 80k D.O.E
Share Scheme
Private health cover
Pension
25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Fully remote
And more!

If this role sounds of interest to you or someone you know, then please apply to this advert and reach out to a. methula@ioassociates. co.uk

About the Company

Specialising in recruitment across the tech, digital, engineering, and government and defence sectors, iO Associates have extensive experience in securing the best talent to create the products and infrastructure of the future. Our dedicated team of highly experienced and knowledgeable consultants provide bespoke solutions, working with businesses to find the perfect fit across contract, interim, search, and permanent appointments. We offer end-to-end support, from Statements of Work and IR35 determination processes to full... Know more