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Posted 3 days ago
AI Engineer
Yolk Recruitment Ltd
📍 Cardiff
I.T. & CommunicationsRemoteHybrid
Job description
<strong>AI Engineer Hybrid Python AWS LLMs Agentic AI</strong><p>We're working with a fast-growing technology business investing heavily in AI-driven product development and intelligent automation.</p><p>They're looking for an experienced AI Engineer to help build scalable, production-grade AI systems that deliver real commercial impact across their platform.</p><p>This is not a research role. It's a hands-on engineering position focused on designing, building and deploying AI capabilities into live products used by customers globally.</p><p>You'll be working across modern AI tooling, backend engineering and cloud infrastructure to develop intelligent workflows, LLM-powered features and agentic systems that improve automation, decision-making and user experience.</p><strong>What you'll be doing</strong><ul><li>Building and deploying production AI applications using LLMs</li><li>Designing agentic workflows and multi-step AI pipelines</li><li>Developing scalable backend APIs and cloud-native services</li><li>Creating RAG pipelines, embeddings and AI retrieval systems</li><li>Improving AI reliability through testing, evaluation and guardrails</li><li>Working closely with engineering, product and business teams</li><li>Contributing to architecture decisions and AI best practice</li><li>Helping shape the future direction of AI capability across the business</li></ul><strong>Tech environment</strong><p>Python, AWS, APIs, LLMs, RAG, Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, cloud-native architecture and modern AI engineering tooling.</p><strong>What they're looking for</strong><ul><li>Strong Python backend engineering experience</li><li>Experience building and deploying LLM-based applications</li><li>Good understanding of APIs, distributed systems and cloud platforms</li><li>Hands-on experience with RAG, embeddings and AI orchestration</li><li>Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and modern engineering practices</li><li>Someone comfortable operating in a fast-moving product environment</li></ul><strong>Nice to have</strong><ul><li>Experience with agentic AI frameworks</li><li>AI evaluation and guardrail implementation</li><li>Fine-tuning or hosting LLMs</li><li>Reinforcement learning or planning systems</li><li>MSc or PhD in a relevant discipline</li></ul><strong>Why apply?</strong><ul><li>Opportunity to work on genuinely cutting-edge AI products</li><li>High-impact engineering role with real ownership</li><li>Modern tech stack and AI-first environment</li><li>Fully remote flexibility</li><li>Strong growth plans and long-term AI investment</li></ul><p>If you're interested in building production AI systems rather than just experimenting with them, this is a genuinely strong opportunity to join a business putting AI at the centre of its product strategy.</p><img src="https://www.jobg8.com/Tracking.aspx?NNcQ65VzYn18JzUrGI3hz4xkVje4gMMaz" width="0" height="0" />
Benefits
Hybrid