Remote AI Engineer

Senior LLM, RAG & Agentic AI Consulting Engineer - Lead / Senior FDE

Remote First, some trips to client offices and HQ

Lead the design and delivery of complex, AI-native client engagements, spanning agentic systems, retrieval architectures and semantic layers. This is a senior, hands-on consulting role combining deep technical leadership with strong client presence, shaping both client outcomes and the firm’s long-term AI engineering capability.

As client demand for AI-native transformation accelerates, the consulting practice is expanding its engineering capability across agentic systems, retrieval, ontologies and AI-enabled execution.

The Consulting Engineer is a hands-on AI systems builder who combines deep engineering craft with commercial and product thinking to design, build and deploy agentic, retrieval and ontology-based systems for enterprise clients.

You will work directly with senior client stakeholders and alongside consulting and orchestration roles, translating complex business challenges into safe, reliable and measurable AI solutions.

Client-Facing AI Engineering & Agentic System Design

You will design and deliver production-grade AI systems for external clients, including:

Ontology and knowledge modelling literacy to enable precise reasoning and data alignment

Assess client data, platforms, security constraints and operating models

Delivery Excellence, AI Ops & Reliability

Applying governance, risk and compliance principles within client environments

Ensuring reliability, reproducibility, performance and cost controls

Solid experience in software engineering, AI engineering, or applied data engineering

Strong hands-on experience with LLMs, embeddings, RAG, retrieval stacks and vector databases

Strong Python skills with experience building production-grade systems

Experience working across at least one major cloud AI ecosystem (e.g. Azure/OpenAI, GCP/Vertex, AWS, Anthropic)

Staffworx are a UK based Talent & Recruiting Partner, supporting Digital Commerce, Software and Business Consulting sectors across the UK & EMEA.