Contract ML Engineer | LLM & Agentic AI | Fintech Scale-Up | Outside IR35
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£195,000 Per year
Outside
Remote
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role is for a Contract ML Engineer specializing in LLM and agentic AI within a leading technology consultancy focused on an AI transformation program for a fintech scale-up. The position requires proven experience in deploying AI solutions in production environments and offers significant autonomy in a fast-paced setting. The engineer will be responsible for designing and deploying LLM-powered applications and optimizing AI workflows. The role is remote with occasional travel to London and classified as outside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Designing and deploying LLM-powered applications and agentic workflows
- RAG pipeline development and optimisation
- Integrating AI into existing fintech data infrastructure
- Collaborating with product and data teams to ship at pace
Key Skills:
- Proven contract experience within a fintech or scale-up environment
- Production deployment experience, models in the real world not just notebooks
- Experience with agentic architectures and multi-agent systems
- Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-moving environment
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with LLM frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen or similar
- Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate or pgvector
- Knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or GCP
- Familiarity with MLflow or similar for experiment tracking
- Experience with Docker/Kubernetes for containerisation and deployment
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines for ML workflows
Salary (Rate): £195,000.00 yearly
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Rate: £650 - £750 per day
Duration: 6 months (strong likelihood of extension)
Location: Remote with occasional London travel
IR35: Outside
SR2 are partnered with a leading technology consultancy delivering an AI transformation programme for one of the more ambitious fintech scale-ups in the UK market right now. They are scaling fast and need a contract engineer who has been here before, someone who has built and shipped LLM and agentic systems in a fintech or scale-up environment and knows what production really means. You'll have real ownership over technically complex work, shipping production AI into a product that actually matters, with the autonomy to do it properly.
What you'll be working on:
- Designing and deploying LLM-powered applications and agentic workflows
- RAG pipeline development and optimisation
- Integrating AI into existing fintech data infrastructure
- Collaborating with product and data teams to ship at pace
Tech stack:
- Python (primary language)
- LLM frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen or similar
- Vector databases: Pinecone, Weaviate or pgvector
- Cloud: AWS, Azure or GCP
- MLflow or similar for experiment tracking
- Docker / Kubernetes for containerisation and deployment
- CI/CD pipelines for ML workflows
What they need:
- Proven contract experience within a fintech or scale-up environment
- Production deployment experience, models in the real world not just notebooks
- Experience with agentic architectures and multi-agent systems
- Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-moving environment