Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Explore Group, Reading, £Contract Rate

AI Engineer - Outside IR35 - Hybrid

We are looking for an experienced AI Engineer to design, build and deploy multi-agent AI solutions. The work involves taking systems from design through to live deployment, in environments where robustness and security take priority over speed of delivery.

This is a hands-on delivery role rather than a research or proof-of-concept position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build multi-agent systems using modern orchestration frameworks.
• Integrate large language models and vision-language models into operational workflows covering reasoning, search, summarisation and task automation.
• Deploy solutions across cloud, on-premises and disconnected/isolated environments.
• Build end-to-end pipelines covering data ingestion through to model inference.
• Implement monitoring for agent behaviour, model performance and failure conditions.
• Provide technical leadership on agentic AI approaches, supporting less experienced engineers

Key Skills:

• Proven commercial experience delivering multi-agent or agentic AI systems into production.
• Strong Python skills and hands-on experience with agent/orchestration frameworks.
• Experience deploying AI/ML solutions into live environments.
• Working knowledge of Docker, Git and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
• Understanding of secure deployment approaches for isolated or restricted environments.
• Container orchestration, MLOps and familiarity with inter-agent communication standards are desirable.

Job Details:

• 6-month rolling contract
• Outside IR35
• ASAP Start
• Hybrid

If this role is of interest, apply here and we can arrange a call.