Data Scientist at Randstad Digital, London Area, £Contract Rate

AI / LLM Engineer (Copilot, Azure AI)

Leeds (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)

| Contract | Outside IR35 | Competitive Day Rate

We’re looking for a hands-on AI / LLM Engineer to design and deliver enterprise-grade Generative AI and Copilot solutions within a modern cloud environment.

This role sits at the intersection of AI engineering, architecture, and platform delivery, with a strong focus on building scalable, secure, and production-ready AI systems.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, build and deploy Copilot solutions, AI agents and LLM-powered applications
• Develop end-to-end LLM workflows (prompt orchestration, automation, integrations)
• Implement and optimise RAG pipelines, embeddings and vector search strategies
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise systems, APIs and data platforms
• Build scalable and reusable components (prompt libraries, connectors, templates)
• Apply secure-by-design and responsible AI practices (guardrails, monitoring, auditability)
• Implement observability and monitoring (logging, telemetry, performance tracking)
• Troubleshoot and improve model performance, reliability and hallucination issues
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across engineering, architecture and governance

Key Skills & Experience

• Proven experience building LLM / Generative AI solutions in production
• Strong understanding of:
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
• Embeddings and vector databases
• Prompt engineering and orchestration
• Hands-on experience with:
• Azure AI / Azure OpenAI
• Copilot Studio or similar agent frameworks
• Experience integrating with APIs and enterprise systems
• Knowledge of secure development practices (authentication, data protection, compliance)
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, monitoring and cloud-native architectures
• Ability to debug AI behaviour (hallucinations, inconsistency, performance issues)

Nice to Have

• Experience in financial services or regulated environments
• Exposure to AI governance, risk and compliance frameworks
• Experience with agent frameworks (e.g. orchestration tools, Semantic Kernel, LangChain)