[Hiring] Senior AI Engineer @Kainos

Role Description

As a Senior AI Engineer at Kainos, you will deliver advanced AI solutions leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning, generative and agentic AI technologies. You will:

• Drive the adoption of modern AI frameworks, AI Ops best practices, and scalable cloud-native architectures.
• Engage in hands-on technical delivery, collaborating with customers to translate business challenges into trustworthy AI solutions.
• Ensure responsible AI practices throughout your work.
• Act as a technical mentor, fostering a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
• Make sound, reasoned decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Support colleagues and junior developers, providing direction and assistance in solving challenging problems.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a 2.1 degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Statistics, or a similar quantitative field.
• Demonstrable experience of deploying modern AI/ML solutions into production, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), model evaluation, and monitoring using metrics (e.g. precision, recall, NDCG, and drift detection).
• Strong Python skills with a grounding in software engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, code reviews, etc.).
• Experience developing solutions at scale on cloud platforms (Azure & AWS), containerization, and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Expertise in data engineering for AI: handling large-scale, unstructured, and multimodal data.
• Understanding of responsible AI principles, model interpretability, and ethical considerations.
• Strong interpersonal skills and team working.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience with modern deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow), fine-tuning or distillation of LLMs (e.g., GPT, Llama, Claude, Gemini), machine learning libraries (e.g. scikit-learn, XGBoost).
• Experience with data storage for AI, vector databases, semantic search, and knowledge graphs.
• Contributions to open-source AI projects or research publications.
• Familiarity with AI security, privacy, and compliance standards e.g. ISO42001.

Benefits

At Kainos, we believe in the power of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are committed to building a team that is as diverse as the world we live in, where everyone is valued, respected, and given an equal chance to thrive. We actively seek out talented people from all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them who they are.

Our friendly talent acquisition team is here to support you every step of the way, so if you require any accommodations or adjustments, we encourage you to reach out. We understand that everyone's journey is different, and by having a private conversation, we can ensure that our recruitment process is tailored to your needs.