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Sheffield / £70000 - £90000 annum

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Salary
SALARY:

£70000 - £90000

Location

LOCATION

Sheffield

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Principal AI Engineer - Sheffield (1-2 days a week)

GCP REQUIRED

We are working with a growing, tech-driven insurance company looking for an AI Engineer to help build and deploy production-grade AI systems. You'll play a key role in shaping AI‑first products, developing end‑to‑end agents, and creating robust evaluation and monitoring frameworks.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and operate AI-powered products that deliver measurable outcomes.
  • Develop production-ready AI agents on GCP, including secure API integrations.
  • Integrate agent capabilities into applications using MCP servers and supporting tools.
  • Develop reliable RAG pipelines, including ingestion, chunking, metadata and vector search.

Required:

  • Strong Python skills for backend, APIs, testing and async patterns.
  • Practical experience with LLMs, embeddings, prompt/function calling and vector databases.
  • Solid knowledge of GCP services (Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud Run/Functions) and Google's ADK.
  • Experience with document processing, text normalisation and storage systems (Postgres, Redis, GCS/BigQuery).
  • Familiarity with DevOps practices: Git, CI/CD, Docker, observability and automated testing.
  • A product-focused mindset and the ability to translate needs into intuitive AI workflows.

CONTACT

Libby Gunn

Recruitment Consultant

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