AI Engineer

Abstract Group

AI Engineer designing and deploying AI features for clients, collaborating on complex solutions in various projects. Building scalable AI solutions and integrating them within client environments.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeLeeds • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudJavaScript.NETPythonReact

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the development of AI solutions across multiple client engagements.
Collaborate with Abstract Customer Engagement and clients to understand business challenges and translate them into AI-driven solutions.
Work with client data teams to ingest, clean, and prepare data for modeling.
Build and integrate AI solutions using Azure AI Foundry, OneReach.ai, LangChain or similar orchestration frameworks for conversational AI.
Design and optimise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, including embedding generation, vector database configuration, API, MCP and retrieval tuning to improve accuracy, latency, and relevance in conversational AI.
Prompt optimisation of closed source LLMs, or post-training of open-source LLMs to build new or improve existing agentic workflows.
Understand and guide on evaluation frameworks to measure model safety, accuracy, and performance, including recall, precision, F1-score, and other relevant metrics for both conversational AI and classification models.
Collaborate with our DevOps team to produce MLOps pipelines to speed up experimentation, deployment, and monitoring.
Ship AI models into live production environments and iterate rapidly based on usage, feedback, and metric-driven insights.
Write clean, testable, and scalable code in .NET or Python and integrate with backend services.
Stay up-to-date with the latest AI research and tools, applying them pragmatically to solve real problems.
Design and refine prompts, workflows, and evaluation frameworks for autonomous AI financial analysts.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience operating within a senior or lead software engineering position with a full stack developer background
Experience using React.Js
Azure Cloud experience of at least 5+ years
Exposure to building AI solutions, with experience shipping production solutions.
Ability to write clean, testable, and scalable code with Python, C# or JS.
Demonstrable production experience with AI Foundry Orchestration, LangChain, OneReach.ai or similar AI orchestration frameworks.
Proven experience developing AI agents and agentic workflows for commercial applications.
Experience leading technical projects from design through to production deployment.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to confidently present technical solutions and architectures to clients and senior stakeholders.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible Hybrid working structure (3 days in office).
25 days holiday rising an extra day a year up to 30 days.
Base salary commensurate with experience.
Vibrant Leeds City Centre office with games area, fully stocked kitchen, free food and drinks.
Regular social events, team lunches, and outings.
Benefits platform offering a range of retail and entertainment discounts.

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI solutions developmentdata ingestiondata cleaningdata preparationRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)prompt optimisationMLOps pipelines.NETPythonReact.js

Soft Skills

communicationstakeholder managementleadershipcollaborationproblem-solving