Senior/Principal AI/ML Engineer

We are seeking a Senior AI Product & Research Engineer (Consultant) to help design, prototype, and scale enterprise-grade AI products. This role combines deep technical AI expertise with strong product intuition and hands-on experience leveraging modern AI development tools and coding agents.

You will work closely with leadership, engineering, and research teams to translate ambitious AI concepts into deployable, secure, and scalable production systems.

What You Will Do:

• · Translate business and research objectives into scalable AI product architectures.
• · Rapidly prototype AI-driven applications using modern AI coding agents and developer copilots.
• · Design and implement enterprise-grade AI systems across model development, evaluation, and deployment.
• · Lead applied research efforts across LLMs, agentic systems, retrieval architectures, and applied ML.
• · Establish evaluation frameworks to measure model quality, safety, robustness, and business impact.
• · Architect production-ready AI applications with strong observability, monitoring, and iteration loops.
• · Advise on AI tooling, vendor selection, infrastructure alignment, and technical roadmap decisions.
• · Mentor internal engineers on modern AI development workflows and best practices.

Must Have:

• 8 - 12+ years of experience across AI/ML engineering, applied research, or AI product development.
• · Demonstrated experience building and shipping enterprise-grade AI products.
• · Deep familiarity with modern AI stacks (LLMs, RAG systems, fine-tuning, embeddings, orchestration frameworks).
• · Hands-on experience using AI coding agents and AI-assisted development tools in production workflows.
• · Strong product instincts: ability to balance technical feasibility, business value, and user experience.
• · Proficiency in Python and modern AI frameworks

Nice to Have

• · Experience deploying AI systems in regulated or security-sensitive environments.
• · Familiarity with distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
• · Background working at leading AI labs, big tech, or high-performance startups.
• · Experience designing internal AI platforms used by multiple teams.

 At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.