AI Engineer - Manchester
Summary
Contract AI Engineer (via Adecco, inside IR35, until Dec 2026) building enterprise Generative AI solutions — RAG pipelines, AI agents/agentic workflows, and LLM applications — using Python, SQL, and REST integrations on Azure/AWS/GCP. Hybrid: 2 days/week in Manchester, Leeds, or Edinburgh; day rate up to £800.
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements:- Commercial experience building Generative AI solutions.
- Strong hands-on experience with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).
- Experience developing AI Agents or Agentic AI applications.
- Strong Python development skills.
- Strong SQL skills.
- Experience integrating applications using REST APIs.
- Proven prompt engineering experience.
- Experience deploying AI solutions into production environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Knowledge of Knowledge Graphs.
- Experience with LangChain and/or LangGraph.
- Experience with Vector Databases and Embeddings.
- Experience with Multi-Agent Systems.
- Experience with Azure, AWS or GCP cloud platforms.
- Experience working within Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, or Consulting.
- Design and develop AI-powered applications using Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs).
- Build and optimise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions.
- Develop AI Agents and Agentic workflows to automate business processes.
- Create effective prompts and implement prompt engineering best practices.
- Integrate AI services with enterprise systems via REST APIs.
- Develop scalable solutions using Python and SQL.
- Test, evaluate, and improve AI model performance and reliability.
- Work closely with engineering, data, and business teams to deliver innovative AI solutions.
- Agentic AI
- AI
- AI Agents
- AWS
- Azure
- Cloud
- GCP
- LLM
- Python
- RAG
- REST
- SQL
More:
We are hiring an experienced AI Engineer to join a growing team delivering cutting-edge Generative AI solutions within a large-scale enterprise environment. This contract role runs initially until Dec 2026 and offers a day rate of up to £800 inside IR35 via umbrella. We work in a hybrid model with 2 days per week in either Manchester, Leeds, or Edinburgh preferred, with Birmingham and Bristol also considered. This is an opportunity to work on high-profile AI transformation programmes, design and build enterprise-scale AI solutions, gain exposure to the latest GenAI, Agentic AI and LLM technologies, and help influence architecture, engineering standards, and AI strategy.
last updated 38 week of 2026