Senior Applied AI Engineer
Core
Own the AI layer of production systems for public sector clients, including agents, model integration, backend services, and evaluation.
Role type
Senior Applied AI Engineer (Production Systems)
Builds
Production agents, backend integration services, and evaluation frameworks for public sector clients
Domain
Public sector AI / Production ML Systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Backend engineering, production AI/ML system ownership, evaluation design, context engineering, root-cause analysis, client communication, regulated data handling
Preferred skills
Sovereign or on-premise deployment experience, model adaptation, inference optimisation
Technologies
Agents, retrieval-augmented generation, guardrails, observability tools
Responsibilities
Build production agents with reliable tool calling and guardrails, select and design evaluation methods for client risks, investigate regressions and lead root-cause analysis, manage client expectations on scope and delivery, codify recurring work into reusable tooling, mentor engineers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
