Senior AI Engineer (BioTech/Pharma) | Outside IR35 Contract £600 - 700pd | Hybrid, Oxford | 6 Months
Harvey Nash are working with an exciting consultancy who are looking to bring on a highly experienced AI Engineer to support on a crucial project within the BioTech/Pharma space. Industry domain knowledge would be beneficial.
Key Technical Skills Required
- Senior Python engineer with strong production software engineering experience.
- Commercial experience building LLM, agentic AI or multi-agent systems.
- Hands-on experience with LangGraph, LangChain, Haystack or similar frameworks.
- Proven ability to deploy AI/ML systems into production environments.
- Strong knowledge of inference, latency, performance, data pipelines, memory and tool/function calling.
- Experience with large-scale search and retrieval, including embeddings, indexing and querying multi-modal datasets.
- Confident with Docker, Git and cloud platforms, ideally AWS.
- Understanding of secure deployments, including air-gapped, on-premises or sovereign cloud environments.
- Strong technical ownership, documentation and stakeholder communication skills.
Desirable
- Kubernetes, EKS or OpenShift.
- MLOps, monitoring, evaluation and reproducibility.
- Agent orchestration, A2A or MCP.
- Multimodal, edge or offline AI deployments.
- Secure-by-design principles, including ISO 27001, NIST or OWASP.
Contract Details
£600 - 700pd - dependent on experience Outside IR35
Hybrid - 2 days per week in Oxford
6 Months - extensions possible
2 Stage IV Process
ASAP Start
Though SC clearance isn't required from the offset, it is highly advantageous. Subsequently, candidates who are eligible to obtain SC Clearance will also be prioritised.
Rate:
£700/day
Location:
Oxford
IR35 Status:
Outside
Remote Status:
Hybrid
Industry:
AI & Machine Learning
Seniority Level:
Senior