Senior AI Engineer

Overview

As a Senior AI Engineer at Kainos, you will deliver advanced AI solutions using cutting-edge ML, generative and agentic AI. You will promote modern AI frameworks, AIOps, and scalable cloud-native architectures, while delivering hands-on technical work and guiding customers to trust-worthy AI implementations. You will mentor peers, foster innovation and engineering excellence in a fast-paced environment. This role offers impact through responsible AI practices and collaboration with a diverse, ambitious team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver advanced AI solutions leveraging state-of-the-art ML, generative and agentic AI technologies
• Drive adoption of modern AI frameworks, AIOps practices, and scalable cloud-native architectures
• Engage with customers to translate business challenges into trustworthy AI solutions
• Ensure responsible AI practices across projects
• Mentor and support colleagues, fostering innovation and engineering excellence
• Make sound, reasoned decisions in a fast-paced environment while learning new technologies

Key requirements

• 2.1 degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Statistics or similar quantitative field
• Experience deploying modern AI/ML solutions into production, including prompt engineering, RAG, model evaluation and monitoring
• Strong Python skills with software engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, code reviews)
• Experience developing solutions at scale on Azure & AWS, plus Kubernetes and Docker
• Expertise in data engineering for AI with large-scale, unstructured and multimodal data
• Understanding of responsible AI, model interpretability and ethics
• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills

• strong interpersonal skills
• team collaboration
• mentoring and coaching
• Python
• CI/CD
• testing

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