Artificial Intelligence Engineer

AI Engineer / Software Engineer Contract – Outside IR35 • • • • 3 Days a week • • • • • Remote – UK based ideally, but open to options for people in UK time zone Initial 6 months (with potential extension) Rate: up to £350 a day + VAT A early stage, scaling Edtech business is actively looking for a contract AI Engineer to help them build next-gen assessment systems. You’ll design and ship LLM-powered features that make faster, fairer, and more intelligent assessments from multimodal workflows and automated scoring to adaptive feedback and guardrails for reliability. Being part of a small, agile team, you’ll have freedom to make technical calls, prototype fast, and shape how we deliver scalable AI assessment tools. What you’ll do: • Build and optimise LLM workflows, APIs, and backend services • Create evaluation pipelines, datasets, and regression tests • Prototype agent-based tools and multimodal workflows (text, audio, video, images) • Instrument, monitor, and safeguard AI systems in production • Collaborate with developers and domain experts to shape architecture What we’re looking for: • Commercial hands-on experience in backend development and AI engineering • Strong Python + API development skills • Hands-on LLM and agentic workflow experience (LangChain, LangGraph, etc.) • Proven record tuning models, benchmarking, and shipping AI features • Cloud deployment (AWS/Azure) and MLOps tooling experience Nice to have: • EdTech or assessment background • Experience with speech-to-text, computer vision, or semantic search This is a 3 day a week contract, so please only apply if this is something you are happy to commit to. This is an urgent requirement, so immediate start is needed. Interviews will be happening with Founder & CTO over first two weeks of September.