Senior AI Engineer

Senior AI Engineer

Join Kainos in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Kainos is recognised as one of the UK’s leading AI and data businesses, with a decade-long track record of delivering production‑grade AI solutions for clients across government, healthcare, defence, and commercial sectors.

Our 150‑strong AI and Data Practice brings together deep expertise in machine learning, generative AI, agentic AI and data. We are pioneers in responsible AI, having authored the UK government’s AI Cyber Security Code of Practice implementation guide and partnering with leading organisations to ensure AI is deployed ethically, securely and with measurable business value.

As a Senior AI Engineer at Kainos, you will deliver advanced AI solutions leveraging state‑of‑the‑art machine learning, generative and agentic AI technologies. You will drive the adoption of modern AI frameworks, AIOps best practices and scalable cloud‑native architectures. Your role will involve hands‑on technical delivery, collaborating with customers to translate business challenges into trustworthy AI solutions and ensuring responsible AI practices throughout.

As a technical mentor, you will foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning and engineering excellence.

• A minimum of a 2.1 degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Statistics or a similar quantitative field.
• Demonstrable experience of deploying modern AI/ML solutions into production, including prompt engineering, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), model evaluation and monitoring using metrics such as precision, recall, NDCG and drift detection.
• Strong Python skills with a grounding in software engineering best practices including CI/CD, testing and code reviews.
• Experience developing solutions at scale on cloud platforms (Azure & AWS), containerisation and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Expertise in data engineering for AI: handling large‑scale, unstructured and multimodal data.
• Understanding of responsible AI principles, model interpretability and ethical considerations.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a team‑working mindset.

• Demonstrable experience with modern deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or Tensor Flow, fine‑tuning or distillation of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT, Llama, Claude or Gemini, and machine‑learning libraries such as scikit‑learn or XGBoost.
• Experience with data storage for AI, vector databases, semantic search and knowledge graphs.
• Contributions to open‑source AI projects or research publications.
• Familiarity with AI security, privacy and compliance standards such as ISO
  42001.

At Kainos, we believe in the power of diversity, equity and inclusion. We are committed to building a team that is as diverse as the world we live in, where everyone is valued, respected and given an equal chance to thrive. We actively seek out talented people from all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or any other characteristic that makes them who they are.

We also believe every candidate deserves a level playing field.

Our friendly talent acquisition team is here to support you every step of the way. If you require any accommodations or adjustments, please reach out. We understand that everyone's journey is different and we tailor our recruitment process to your needs.

• Seniority level:
  Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries:
  Information Services