Senior AI Engineer in East Kilbride

Role: Senior AI Engineer
Type: 3-Month Contract (ASAP Start)
Location: Remote (UK or European time zone match)
My client, a leading global financial institution, is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join the AI Center of Excellence within their Emerging Technology Group. Working on core enterprise initiatives, you will design, develop, and deploy production-grade Generative AI workflows and build critical backend security guardrails across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
AI Guardrails & Governance: Design and implement backend security guardrail capabilities to sanitize sensitive data (PII and MNPI) and prevent prompt injection risks in production LLM workflows.
GenAI Workflows & Scalable Solutions: Build and deploy enterprise-level GenAI, ML, and deep learning solutions using Python or Java.
Gen UI/UX & Frontend Integration: Design and implement user interfaces and frontends for AI guardrail requirements (~20-25% of the role).
Cloud Infrastructure & Data Pipelines: Build with AWS and Azure services to construct ETL workflows and dynamic systems using orchestration platforms like Apache Airflow.
Production Operations: Support production applications, maintain SLAs, and create continuous evaluation metrics for ML solution performance.
Qualifications & Skills
2-5 years' hands-on software/ML engineering experience delivering production AI solutions (no PhD required).
Strong programming skills in Python (Java experience also accepted).
Hands-on experience building GenAI applications, LLM workflows, and data pipelines.
Cloud experience across AWS or Azure ecosystems along with data orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow).
Practical understanding of AI safety, prompt injection handling, and PII/MNPI compliance guardrails.
If you have 2-5 years' experience in ML/AI engineering, strong skills in Python, cloud environments, and AI guardrail security, alongside immediate availability - please apply for this opportunity or please...