Senior AI Engineer | GenAI | Information Retrieval | ML | NLP | Hybrid London | Up to £130k

Senior AI Engineer | GenAI | Information Retrieval | ML | NLP | Hybrid London | Up to £130k

This range is provided by Maze. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

We’re hiring three Senior AI Engineers to join two rapidly growing teams within a high-growth fintech/data intelligence scaleup. You’ll work on cutting‑edge Generative AI, LLMs, NLP, and Information Retrieval, building production systems used by global customers.

You’ll join a highly talented AI organisation (reporting into the Senior ML Manager and work closely with product, backend, and frontend teams to ship impactful, user‑facing AI features.

📌 Open Senior Roles (3 Total)

Build the next generation of customer‑facing GenAI features.

You will:

• Build LLM-powered workflows, chat systems, and assistant‑style features.
• Develop simple, reliable systems that solve real customer problems (no over‑engineering).
• Work closely with product and UX to shape user‑facing AI experiences.
• Deploy LLM models and agentic components in production.

You bring:

• Strong hands‑on experience with GenAI, LLMs, agentic frameworks, or chat/workflow apps.
• Excellent Python and software engineering fundamentals.
• Solid cloud experience (AWS preferred, GCP/Azure fine).
• Product‑minded approach and ability to work cross‑functionally.

Own engineering for large‑scale Information Retrieval/NLP pipelines.

You will:

• Build and optimise retrieval, ranking, and document processing systems.
• Implement transformers, embeddings, search pipelines and evaluation frameworks.
• Deploy and maintain ML/IR models in production.

You bring:

• Experience in document processing, NLP, embeddings, transformers.
• Python expertise, solid engineering foundations.
• Experience shipping IR/ML systems in production environments.

Drive applied research within a production‑focused Information Retrieval team.

You will:

• Research and improve retrieval and NLP models.
• Design experiments, run evaluations, and iterate on modelling approaches.
• Collaborate closely with engineering to transition research into production.

You bring:

• Strong applied research experience (PhD or academic work a plus).
• Python & cloud experience and ability to contribute to production code when needed.

What We’re Looking For Across All Senior Roles

Technical Requirements

• Cloud experience (AWS preferred)
• Experience deploying ML/LLM/IR models
• Background in at least one of:
• LLMs & GenAI
• Information Retrieval
• NLP / Document Processing
• Transformer‑based architectures
• Agentic or retrieval‑augmented systems

Soft Skills & Mindset

• Collaborative and pragmatic
• Comfortable in high‑growth, product‑driven teams
• Able to work fast without over‑engineering
• Passionate about modern AI and problem‑solving

These positions do not provide visa sponsorship and require existing right to work in the UK.

Please note: Due to the high volume of applications we are not always able to respond to all applicants, if you have not had a response within 7 days of your application it is likely it has been unsuccessful.

If your skillset matched, please apply within.