AI Engineer

Company: Hays
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Location: Bolton
Job Description:

Overview

In this AI Engineer role you will design, build and deploy AI-powered applications, taking solutions from prototype to production to deliver real business impact. You’ll work across the full solution lifecycle, ensuring robust data, integrations and scalable architecture. You’ll build AI-enabled workflows, conversational assistants and document processing while collaborating with stakeholders to translate challenges into practical tech. This is a hands-on role in a fast‑moving, AI-focused environment with a strong emphasis on delivering value.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build and deploy AI-powered applications across the full solution lifecycle
  • Create AI-enabled solutions such as conversational assistants, workflow automation and intelligent document processing
  • Develop applications using Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and agent-based approaches
  • Move solutions from prototype to deployment, with monitoring and continuous improvement
  • Build and maintain APIs, integrations and data pipelines supporting AI applications
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate operational challenges into technical solutions
  • Support user testing, rollout and adoption of AI capabilities
  • Contribute to engineering standards, testing, documentation and CI/CD practices

Key requirements

  • Experience in software engineering, application development, APIs, integrations or data pipelines
  • Strong programming skills in Python or a similar language
  • Exposure to Large Language Models, prompting, model APIs or AI applications
  • Experience working with SQL and real-world data
  • Experience deploying solutions into cloud environments
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Demonstrable ability to learn new technologies quickly
  • Curious and passionate about learning new technologies
  • Pragmatic and delivering value-focused mindset
  • Ability to understand business problems as well as technical challenges
  • Agentic AI or AI agent frameworks
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • Workflow automation platforms

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Posted: October 21st, 2026