At a Glance
- Tasks: Build AI systems for government and public health, turning prototypes into scalable applications.
- Company: Join a dedicated public sector organisation making a difference.
- Benefits: Contract and permanent roles with competitive pay and impactful work.
- Other info: Ideal for those passionate about civic tech and making a real-world impact.
- Why this job: Shape the future of AI in public service and enhance community welfare.
- Qualifications: 3+ years in backend services, APIs, and full stack delivery required.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 70000 £ per year.
Job Type: Contract and Perm opportunities. On behalf of our client, a dedicated public sector organisation, we are seeking an AI Systems Engineer to build artificial intelligence native decision systems for government, defence, and public health. You will turn quantitative models into secure, compliance ready products and packaged desktop applications for scaled public sector delivery. This is a shipping first role across conventional systems and agent assisted platforms.
What You Will Do & Own:
- Turn quantitative prototypes into reusable tools, services, and cloud hosted or local desktop applications that move from testing to scaled agency rollout.
- Build strict public sector hardening: authentication, role based access control (RBAC), observability, security, and cost controls.
- Embed evaluation and regression testing into the release cycle to measure model logic and agent behaviour.
- Own data flows, APIs, model serving, front end applications, and continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
- Own the agentic harness layer, evaluation frameworks, control plane behaviour, and tool integration.
Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years of hands on experience in backend services, APIs, full stack delivery, data pipelines, model serving, or agentic orchestration.
- Solid engineering judgement for enterprise hardening, including auth, RBAC, security, and regression testing for machine learning workflows.
- Minimum 3 years of stakeholder facing delivery, moving workflow systems past the proof of concept stage.
- Bachelor degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, economics, or related field.
- Must be a British Citizen.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with public sector, government, civic tech, or defence workflows.
- Experience with tool using systems, retrieval pipelines, or agent orchestration.
- Background building expert facing interfaces or decision support systems.
- Familiarity packaging desktop applications for Windows heavy environments.
AI Engineer employer: IO Associates
As a leading public sector organisation, we pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and innovative work culture that empowers our employees to make a meaningful impact in government, defence, and public health. With a strong focus on professional development, we offer numerous growth opportunities and the chance to work on cutting-edge AI projects that directly benefit society. Our commitment to security and compliance ensures that you will be part of a team dedicated to delivering high-quality solutions in a supportive environment.
