Applied AI Engineer – Decision Support (Energy Trading)

Type of Role: Permanent

Location and Travel: London, hybrid working model with 2–3 days per week in the office. No travel is required.

Role Summary: Aubay UK is seeking an Applied AI Engineer – Decision Support (Energy Trading) to join a permanent engagement based in London. This role focuses on designing and delivering AI-driven decision-support tools for energy trading, with an emphasis on transforming complex market, pricing, and internal analytics data into clear, thesis-driven insights. The successful candidate will work on a trading use case, building scalable, explainable AI systems that support traders’ decision-making without automated execution, while meeting strict security, compliance, and governance standards.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Strong experience building applied AI or machine learning systems in production environments
• Proficiency in Python for data processing, model integration, and orchestration
• Experience deploying services on Kubernetes-based infrastructure
• Solid understanding of data engineering concepts, including data quality, freshness, and monitoring
• Experience integrating multiple data sources (public and proprietary) into coherent analytical workflows
• Ability to design explainable, transparent AI outputs suitable for decision support
• Strong communication skills and ability to work closely with traders and subject matter experts

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience in commodities, energy trading, or financial markets
• Familiarity with live pricing feeds and market data systems
• Experience implementing human-in-the-loop or feedback-driven learning systems
• Knowledge of evaluation frameworks for model robustness, sensitivity, and consistency
• Experience working in regulated or security-conscious enterprise environments

Role Responsibilities:

• Design and implement AI-driven decision-support components for energy trading use cases
• Integrate public market data with proprietary internal analytics and live pricing inputs
• Develop thesis-first reasoning frameworks that generate trade ideas with evidence, risks, and counter-arguments
• Implement feedback loops to capture trader ratings and comments for iterative improvement
• Build and maintain evaluation tooling for sensitivity, robustness, and consistency testing
• Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, and data-handling standards
• Collaborate closely with traders, data scientists, and platform engineers to iterate on usability and quality

Client Description: Our client is a global energy trading and analytics organisation operating across physical and financial commodity markets. The organisation leverages advanced analytics, data science, and digital platforms to support trading decision-making across distillates and other energy products, with a strong focus on security, governance, and scalable cloud-native infrastructure.

About Aubay: Aubay UK is a recognised InSourcing Partner for client-side deployment delivered across London. Our team, based in Canary Wharf, specialises in hiring IT professionals within London’s Energy and FinTech sectors, helping our clients to expand their operations with top-tier talent who are experts in their fields. We work exclusively with clients who are globally recognized as Energy Super Majors/Financial Services and innovative FinTech players. Aubay UK is the most recently started branch of Aubay Group. Aubay Group is an international Digital Services Company, listed on a Euronext Stock Exchange, who have been operating for 25 years in the European market and working alongside some of the biggest names in the Banking, Finance, Insurance, Energy, IT/Digital, Manufacturing, Transport and Telecoms sectors. With over 7,800 employees across 7 countries and 16 offices in England, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, Aubay Group generated revenues of €513 million in 2022.

At Aubay UK, people are at the heart of our business. We offer a competitive remuneration package which includes a range of benefits. You will receive continuous support from our dedicated team of Talent Acquisition Specialists who will support your career development and success during your assignment with our client. Aubay UK is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment decisions will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs.

• 25 Days Annual Leave
• Work From Home Opportunities
• Pension Scheme
• Opportunities to Work Directly with our Client
• Training Opportunities
• Discount Holidays at I’Aero Chalet