AI Platform Engineer

About the Company

Our client leverages cutting-edge technology and data-driven research to drive their scientific approach to investing. Renowned for their innovative culture and collaborative mindset, they have consistently delivered high-quality returns for their investors.

Role Overview

As an AI Platform Engineer, you will be instrumental in building and operating the internal AI application platform, empowering researchers, developers, and data scientists with LLM-powered tools. You will focus on production AI services, including RAG systems, agentic workflows, and retrieval infrastructure. This role is available due to the company's ongoing growth and commitment to enhancing their AI capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain internal AI services and APIs.

- Build and improve RAG pipelines, including document ingestion, embeddings, retrieval, and relevance optimisation.

- Manage vector database performance, scalability, and data freshness.

- Design clear, well-documented APIs for internal users.

- Support agentic workflows and the services they depend on.

- Integrate model serving endpoints into application-layer services.

- Define and monitor service objectives around latency, reliability, and retrieval quality.

- Implement prompt management, versioning, evaluation, and testing frameworks.

- Build resilient systems with fallback and degradation mechanisms.

- Implement monitoring, tracing, logging, and quality metrics across AI services.

- Manage service lifecycle activities, including deployment, rollout, versioning, and deprecation.

- Participate in operational support and incident response.

Key Skills & Experience

- 4+ years of experience in software or platform engineering, with exposure to AI/ML or LLM-based applications.

- Strong Kubernetes experience and familiarity with containerised environments.

- Good knowledge of AWS, networking fundamentals, IAM, and cloud infrastructure.

- Hands-on experience building and operating production RAG systems.

- Experience with vector databases and retrieval systems.

- Strong Python skills and experience building production APIs and services.

- Understanding of LLM fundamentals, including prompting, context management, token constraints, and output reliability.

- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.

Salary & Benefits

- Salary: highly competitive

- Bonus: Competitive annual performance bonus

- Outstanding benefits

Development & Growth

- Clear path to Senior and Lead roles

- Access to internal training resources and mentoring

- Regular hackathons and conference budgets

This role is perfect for a seasoned AI Platform Engineer looking to make a significant impact within a forward-thinking, technology-driven investment firm. Apply today to be part of a dynamic team that values innovation and excellence.