Ai Engineer

Project overview

Robert Half have partnered with a UK-based workplace design, build, architecture and consultancy with a strong reputation for delivering high-quality office spaces. They are investing in a new AI and transformation function focused on building the data, semantic and agentic platforms that will support AI-powered business workflows across the organisation.

This is an opportunity for an AI Engineer to join at an early stage, helping take ideas from concept to production and working closely with teams across the business. 6 month initial contract

Role

Key Responsibilities

• The AI Engineer will have the opportunity to join at an early stage of a new AI and transformation function
• Greenfield opportunity to help shape and build the AI, data, semantic and agentic platform from the ground up
• Focus on building data, semantic and agentic platforms to support AI-powered workflows across the business
• Involvement in taking ideas from concept through to production
• Working closely with teams across the organisation
• Reporting to the Head of AI and Transformation
• The AI Engineer will design, build and run full-stack AI applications, from data pipelines and APIs to agent services and web front ends
• Build semantic and retrieval layers across documents and structured data, including RAG capabilities
• Develop and operate AI agents, tools and governed access controls
• Integrate AI solutions with core business systems including ERP, CRM, finance, project and document platforms
• Embed data governance, security, auditability and human oversight into AI platforms
• Define and follow a robust agent development lifecycle, including evaluation, testing, monitoring and release
• Set up engineering best practices including CI/CD, observability, infrastructure as code, and code review
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools effectively and help shape best practice across the team
• Work closely with product and business stakeholders to turn real workflows into production software
• Contribute to the wider enterprise and AI architecture, documentation and platform direction
• Ideally bring experience of working on greenfield projects, with the ability to help shape architecture, engineering standards and delivery approach from the outset

Project details

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 6
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: City of London, UK, GB
• Languages: English

Source notes

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• Well-established UK business operating across workplace design, build, architecture and consultancy
• They have built a strong reputation for delivering high-quality office environments
• They are now investing in AI, data and technology to support the next phase of growth and transformation
• Hybrid working
• central London based
• 6 month initial contract