About the role
Senior AI Engineer | £700–£900/day | Outside IR35 | Oxford / London
Built agentic AI systems that actually run in production?
Strong with Python, LLMs and multi-agent architectures?
Looking for a senior contract where you can take genuine technical ownership?
Our client is hiring a Senior AI Engineer to design, build and deploy complex AI systems from end to end.
Oxford / London – Hybrid
£700–£900 per day
6-month initial contract, strong potential to extend
Outside IR35
Immediate start
Why This Role is Great
Own AI systems from architecture through to production
Build multi-agent and agentic workflows, not just integrate APIs
Work with LLMs, VLMs, RAG, retrieval, memory and tool calling
Engineer for reliability, latency, scale and failure handling
Build large-scale multimodal search and retrieval pipelines
Deploy across cloud, on-prem and offline environments
Set technical direction and influence engineering standards
About You
We’d love to speak with experienced engineers who bring strengths across areas such as:
Strong Python and production software engineering
Commercial experience with agentic AI / multi-agent systems
LangGraph, LangChain, Haystack or similar
LLM/VLM integration and inference
RAG, embeddings, indexing and large-scale retrieval
Docker, Git and cloud platforms such as AWS
Production AI/ML deployment and MLOps
Strong technical ownership at Senior or Lead Engineer level
Experience with Kubernetes, MCP, A2A, multimodal AI, observability or offline deployments would be a bonus.
🔐 Security clearance: Applicants must be eligible for UK BPSS and SC clearance, including holding a UK passport and having 5 years’ continuous UK residency. Existing transferable SC or DV clearance is highly advantageous.
Interested?
Apply now or message us for a confidential conversation.
We and our client are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment process and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. If your experience is transferable but doesn’t tick every box, we’d still encourage you to get in touch.