AI Platform Engineer - Cambridge

AI Platform Engineer - Cambridge£55,000 - £65,000 DOE Hybrid Permanent

We're a growing technology company based in Cambridge, building AI-powered products and internal tooling. We're looking for an AI Platform Engineer to help design, build, and scale the infrastructure and systems that power our AI/LLM-driven applications.

The Role:

• Design and build scalable back-end services and APIs to support AI/LLM-powered features
• Develop and maintain infrastructure for deploying, monitoring, and scaling AI models in production
• Integrate cloud and/or locally hosted LLMs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, open-source models) into live products
• Build RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and prompt/conversation systems
• Collaborate with data, product, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability for AI-driven services
• Own the full lifecycle: experimentation, prototyping, and production deployment

What We're Looking For:

• Strong commercial experience with Python and/or Java, plus cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Hands-on experience with LLM-based application development (RAG, agents, copilots)
• Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, and prompt engineering
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes) a plus
• Strong understanding of scalable, production-grade system design
• Comfortable working across experimentation and live deployment environments

What's on Offer:

• Competitive salary + benefits package
• Hybrid working model
• Opportunity to shape AI strategy and architecture from the ground up
• Collaborative, innovation-focused culture