AI / ML Engineer

Job Title: AI/ML Engineer
Location: Sheffield - 3 days per week in the office
Salary/Rate: Up to 450 per day INSIDE IR35
Start Date: 19/12/2025
Job Type: Contract

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading financial services clients! They are currently looking for a skilled AI/ML Engineer to join their team for a six-month contract.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

• You will be designing and building solutions, using microservice architecture, working closely with the product team to understand the requirements and impact of changes being made
• You will be working to release change to production every day, across the entire team - owning requirements through discussions with the business through to development, testing, release to and support of production.
• You will be expected to collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact solutions.
• You will be driving the development and troubleshooting of backend systems and AI/ML models.
• You will be driving the delivery of document data extraction and unstructured data processing capabilities.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Strong experience delivering product to production, at pace.
• Extensive experience developing microservices using highly iterative methods to deliver change to production regularly. Experience delivering microservices without using frameworks like SpringBoot is a plus.
• Proven experience with Azure OpenAI/ChatGPT and cloud-based AI solutions.
• Strong background in backend technologies and scalable software architecture.
• Expertise in developing and consuming REST APIs.
• Given AI is an ever-evolving field, and appetite to keep learning and staying on top of latest developments to drive to team to stay at the forefront of technology developments.

Desirable Skills/Experience
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:

• Experience with cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Industry experiences delivering AI/ML solutions to production - particularly including hands on experience with generative AI and prompt engineering.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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