SC Cleared AI Engineer in London

SC Cleared AI Engineer - Contract - London

Opportunity for an SC Cleared AI Engineer to join our client's team on a remote basis with occasional travel to client site.You'll work within a product squad to design, build and deliver cutting-edge GenAI and Agentic AI product. This is a hands-on role where you will shape AI workflows, optimise performance and collaborate closely with stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Build GenAI and Agentic AI applications using Python and LangGraph.
• Develop multi-step workflows involving state, routing, tool use and human review.
• Design end-to-end RAG pipelines covering ingestion, chunking, embeddings, indexing and retrieval.
• Build and integrate APIs and backend services.
• Evaluate LLM quality, grounding and hallucinations, implementing appropriate guardrails.
• Handle failures, retries and workflow recovery.
• Implement monitoring, logging and tracing across AI applications.
• Deploy secure and scalable AI solutions on Azure.

Essential Experience

• Active SC clearance suitable for an MOD project.
• Strong production-grade Python software engineering.
• Hands‑on GenAI, LLM and Agentic AI development.
• Strong LangGraph and RAG experience.
• Prompt engineering and structured LLM outputs.
• LLM/RAG evaluation, testing and hallucination mitigation.
• API and backend service integration.
• Automated testing, error handling and observability.
• Hands‑on experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search and Azure AI Foundry.
• Experience with Cosmos DB, Redis, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Managed Identity and Key Vault.

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