Senior AI Engineer in City of London

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 Centre 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

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