AI Engineer

Vallum Associates Limited — United Kingdom · Posted ~2 hours ago

Senior Contract Hybrid

Skills

AI GenAI LLMs APIs RAG Automation Python

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

We are looking for an AI Engineer to design and build practical AI solutions for service management, developing prototypes and proofs of concept using LLMs, APIs, RAG, and automation. The role involves integrating AI with existing systems, evaluating models, and taking solutions from idea to production.

Highlights

Hands-on engineering role building AI solutions, prototyping and developing production-ready systems, working with advanced LLMs and automation technologies.

Description

Role: AI Engineer Location: Exeter, UK (Hybrid: 2 days per week) Type: Inside IR35 Contract (6-month rolling contract) We’re supporting a leading organisation within the UK energy sector looking for an experienced AI / GenAI Engineer to design, build and prototype practical AI solutions across its Service Management function. This is a hands-on engineering role. We need someone who can work with teams to understand a problem or use case and then personally build the solution – taking ideas through prototyping, PoC development and towards production implementation. The role will involve: · Designing and building AI and GenAI solutions for real Service Management use cases · Developing working prototypes and Proofs of Concept · Building solutions using LLMs, APIs, RAG, agents and automation technologies · Integrating AI capabilities with existing enterprise systems, data and workflows · Evaluating models and technical approaches for different use cases · Taking solutions from initial concept through technical design, build and testing · Working with Service Management teams to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions · Working alongside engineering, architecture, data and security teams to move successful PoCs towards production · Ensuring solutions consider security, scalability, governance and enterprise standards What we’re looking for: · Strong hands-on AI / GenAI engineering experience · Proven experience personally building AI applications, prototypes and PoCs · Strong development skills, ideally Python · Practical experience working with LLMs and LLM APIs · Experience with RAG, embeddings, vector databases and prompt engineering · Experience building AI agents / agentic workflows would be highly desirable · Experience integrating AI solutions through APIs and existing enterprise systems · Cloud AI experience across AWS, Azure or GCP · Strong understanding of taking AI solutions beyond experimentation towards production · Comfortable working directly with business stakeholders to understand problems and translate them into working solutions · Service Management / ITSM experience would be advantageous · Energy / utilities experience would be beneficial