Machine Learning/AI Engineer £850/day Inside IR35 6-month initial contract London
Industry: Technology
Location: London
Job Type: Contract - 6-month initial
This programme delivers a production grade enterprise agentic AI platform, with MCP as the extensibility layer.
Responsibilities
- Design and build MCP servers and tools that expose enterprise systems and workflows to AI agents.
- Implement Skills that combine tools, data, and reasoning into structured, repeatable, and governed workflows.
- Contribute to the internal AI assistant's agentic framework, including planning, tool invocation, and orchestration logic.
- Develop secure API wrappers for systems that lack appropriate authentication, authorisation, or entitlement mechanisms.
- Work closely with product engineering teams in a "build-for" model, transferring knowledge and establishing reusable engineering patterns.
- Shape the developer experience for MCP and Skills, including templates, contribution standards, and documentation.
- Collaborate with Quality Engineering and SRE teams to ensure solutions meet requirements for reliability, governance, and operational readiness.
Skills & Experience Required
- Strong Python development experience in production environments.
- Hands on experience with LLMs, agent frameworks, and agentic reasoning patterns.
- Practical understanding of Model Context Protocol (MCP), including tool and server design patterns.
- Experience building REST APIs, ideally using FastAPI.
- Familiarity with prompt engineering and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) architectures.
- Experience with containerisation and Kubernetes based deployment environments.
- Ability to operate across platform, product, and governance boundaries in large enterprise settings.