AI Engineer (LLMs, Agents & Applied Data Science)

Company: Talan
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this hands-on AI Engineer role, you’ll build and deploy AI and ML components for client projects, combining classic data science with GenAI and LLM-based features. You’ll operate under senior architects, delivering defined workstreams and turning designs into production-ready code. You’ll mentor junior colleagues, share learnings, and collaborate across client engagements to solve real problems. This is a delivery-focused position at the intersection of analytics and modern AI, offering breadth across technologies and client impact.

Pay / Benefits

  • BDP Plus sabbatical program
  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays
  • 5 days holiday buy/sell option
  • Private medical insurance
  • Life cover
  • Cycle to work scheme

Responsibilities

  • Build, test, and deploy AI/ML components per designs by senior colleagues
  • Develop GenAI/LLM-based features (prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, simple agent workflows)
  • Deliver classical data science tasks (data prep, feature engineering, model training, evaluation)
  • Translate designs into clean, production-ready code
  • Contribute to model evaluation, testing, and monitoring
  • Support and guide very junior resources and review their work
  • Help peers unblock technical problems and share knowledge across the team
  • Participate in client and team discussions and communicate work clearly

Key requirements

  • Typically, 2–4 years’ experience in data science, ML, or AI engineering
  • Solid grounding in core data science and ML
  • Practical experience with LLMs and generative AI (prompting, RAG)
  • Familiarity with AI agents and orchestration
  • Strong Python and common data/ML libraries; good engineering habits
  • Clear communicator and collaborative team player
  • Clear communicator
  • Collaborative team player
  • Mentoring junior colleagues
  • Python
  • Data/ML libraries
  • LLMs and generative AI

Posted: September 14th, 2026