Senior AI Engineer

Senior AI Engineer | Glasgow Hybrid | £75,000 £100,000 + bonus + exceptional benefits<br><br>Hit Apply below to send your application for consideration Ensure that your CV is up to date, and that you have read the job specs first.<br>Build production-grade LLM and GenAI solutions inside one of the UK's fastest-growing enterpise AI teams.<br>This is a hands-on engineering role with a multi-award-winning UK consultancy whose AI practice has scaled rapidly through strategic acquisition and a strong delivery pipeline across commercial, central government and defence clients. You'll be designing, building and shipping enterprise GenAI systems in Python.<br>What you'll be doing Designing and building production LLM and GenAI solutions in Python from prototype through architecture to deployment.<br>Implementing advanced RAG pipelines hybrid search, re-ranking, query rewriting, context compression, evaluation and grounding.<br>Working with vector stores such as Azure AI Search, Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate and Chroma, and tuning embedding models for enterprise data.<br>Building agentic systems using frameworks like LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, LangChain, LlamaIndex and AutoGen tool use, function calling, multi-step reasoning and orchestration.<br>Integrating foundation models via Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock and open-weight model endpoints (Llama, Mistral, Claude, GPT family).<br>Applying prompt engineering, guardrails, evaluation and observability using tooling such as LangSmith, Langfuse, Ragas, promptfoo and Azure AI Content Safety.<br>Productionising solutions with FastAPI, async Python, Pydantic, Docker and Kubernetes , deployed into Azure-native infrastructure .<br>Partnering with data engineers, solution architects and advisory consultants on end-to-end AI programmes.<br>Engaging directly with senior client stakeholders to shape solution direction.<br>What you'll bring Proven Python engineering background clean, tested, production-ready code.<br>Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM / GenAI solutions in production not just POCs or notebooks.<br>Strong working knowledge of RAG patterns, agentic frameworks, vector databases and embedding models .<br>Familiarity with prompt engineering, LLM evaluation and guardrail design (hallucination mitigation, prompt injection defence, content safety).<br>Experience with cloud-native deployment Azure preferred, with Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD.<br>Solid grasp of LLMOps versioning, tracing, monitoring, cost management and responsible AI.<br>Consultative, client-ready communication comfortable translating ambiguous business problems into AI solutions.<br>Why this role stands out Join a fast-scaling AIpractice backed by two strategic acquisitions and a packed pipeline of enterprise GenAI delivery.<br>Advisory-led, not body-shop you shape the solution, not just implement someone else's design.<br>Work across commercial, central government and defence genuinely interesting problems, not just marketing chatbots.<br>Top Employer award winner with an exceptional benefits package, strong development pathways, and a culture that consistently ranks among the best in UK tech consulting.<br>Real ownership, real impact, and a clear runway into senior technical leadership.<br>In return you will get Competitive compensation package with strong base salary and bonus opportunities<br>Generous and growing annual leave, including loyalty days and birthday leave (up to 29 days total)<br>Comprehensive health support, including private medical insurance and 24/7 wellbeing assistance<br>Family-first policies with enhanced maternity, adoption, and paternity leave<br>Flexible, trust-based working environment designed to support worklife balance<br>Ongoing investment in people through training, coaching, wellbeing support, and lifestyle perks<br>This role is designed for an AI Engineer who wants to build real systems at scale, with accountability inside a consultancy that's genuinely shipping GenAI at the enterprise level.<br>Apply now through Bright Purple to learn more. xwzovoh <br><br>Bright Purple is an equal opportunities employer: we are proud to work with clients who share our values of diversity and inclusion in our industry.