Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Harvey Nash are working with an exciting consultancy who are looking to bring on a highly experienced AI Engineer to support on a crucial project within the BioTech/Pharma space. Industry domain knowledge would be beneficial.

Key Technical Skills Required

• Senior Python engineer with strong production software engineering experience.
• Commercial experience building LLM, agentic AI or multi-agent systems.
• Hands-on experience with LangGraph, LangChain, Haystack or similar frameworks.
• Proven ability to deploy AI/ML systems into production environments.
• Strong knowledge of inference, latency, performance, data pipelines, memory and tool/function calling.
• Experience with large-scale search and retrieval, including embeddings, indexing and querying multi-modal datasets.
• Confident with Docker, Git and cloud platforms, ideally AWS.
• Understanding of secure deployments, including air-gapped, on‑premises or sovereign cloud environments.
• Strong technical ownership, documentation and stakeholder communication skills.
• Kubernetes, EKS or OpenShift.
• MLOps, monitoring, evaluation and reproducibility.
• Agent orchestration, A2A or MCP.
• Multimodal, edge or offline AI deployments.
• Secure-by-design principles, including ISO 27001, NIST or OWASP.
• £600 – 700pd – dependent on experience
• Hybrid – 2 days per week in Oxford
• 2 Stage IV Process
• ASAP Start

Though SC clearance isn’t required from the offset, it is highly advantageous. Subsequently, candidates who are eligible to obtain SC Clearance will also be prioritised.

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