AI Engineer

Company Description

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders. We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income. Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best. Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Job Description

We’re recruiting for an AI Engineer to join us. We’re offering a competitive base salary. We’re looking for an AI Engineer to join a collaborative engineering team where you’ll help design, build and run secure, reliable AI solutions that deliver real value for customers. You’ll work alongside product, platform and data colleagues, contributing to high-quality outcomes while continuing to grow your technical skills in a supportive environment. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.

What you’ll be doing:

• Designing and building production-ready AI and machine learning solutions on Azure
• Developing and maintaining Python services, APIs and data pipelines
• Implementing and improving generative AI solutions including LLMs and RAG architectures
• Contributing to CI/CD pipelines, model lifecycle management and operational monitoring
• Deploying and supporting containerised AI services using Kubernetes and AKS
• Applying testing, security and governance best practices throughout the development lifecycle
• Collaborating in agile teams, participating in code reviews and knowledge sharing
• Continuously learning and contributing to improvements in platforms, tools and ways of working

Who we’re looking for:

• Hands-on experience building and running AI or machine learning solutions in production
• Strong Python skills and a solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals
• Experience with generative AI concepts such as LLMs, prompt engineering or RAG pipelines
• Working knowledge of Azure AI services and cloud-based architectures
• Experience with CI/CD, MLOps or GenAIOps practices
• Familiarity with containerisation and Kubernetes-based deployments
• Understanding of secure, maintainable software development in regulated environments
• Clear communication skills and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• We’re creating net-zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in-person experience

Additional Information

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.