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Director of AI
Nashville
$225000 - $275000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentNashville, Tennessee
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Director of AI
US Remote (EST/CST preference)
$225-275k base + 20% bonus (no equity)
We’re partnering with a global travel management organization that is making a significant investment in AI and is looking for a Director of AI to lead the next stage of that journey.
This is a hands-on leadership role focused on building and scaling agentic AI across the business, from internal productivity and workflow automation through to customer facing AI products.
You’ll own the AI roadmap, technical architecture, team, vendor strategy, governance, and budget, while staying close enough to the technology to guide design and implementation decisions.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Define and deliver the agentic AI strategy across the organization
- Build the frameworks and architecture that intelligent agents operate within, including tool access, context management, control flow, guardrails, and error handling
- Set standards around MCP, A2A, RAG, evaluation, and production readiness
- Build AI into customer facing products and operational workflows
- Drive internal productivity through copilots, automation, and AI enabled tools
- Own model strategy, including provider selection, model routing, self-hosting, and inference cost
- Lead AI governance, security, privacy, and regulatory readiness
- Build and lead a global team of full time and contract engineers
- Own vendor relationships and make build versus buy decisions
What We’re Looking For
- Strong background in software engineering, AI engineering, machine learning, or applied AI
- Hands on experience building and shipping production AI systems, including agentic applications
- Strong understanding of RAG, MCP, A2A, model orchestration, evaluation, and agent security
- Experience leading technical teams and influencing senior stakeholders
- Strong engineering fundamentals across architecture, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and production systems
- Good understanding of the current model landscape across frontier and open weight models
- Experience working with enterprise governance, cybersecurity, privacy, and AI regulation
- Comfortable balancing strategy with hands on technical involvement
Nice to Have
- Experience building ML models beyond API based applications
- Background in Data Science or Machine Learning
- Experience in travel, hospitality, logistics, or another operationally complex industry
- Experience with workflow automation platforms such as n8n
- Experience with ISO/IEC 42001 or EU AI Act readiness
- Experience running AI systems in multi-tenant, customer facing environments

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Lead AI Engineer
London
£95000 - £115000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentLondon
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Lead AI Engineer
£95,000 – £115,000
King’s Cross, London (1-2 days a week in office)
This is an opportunity to lead the design, architecture, and delivery of production-grade AI systems that create measurable business impact. You will work on high-value initiatives, building scalable AI solutions that are embedded directly into core business processes rather than standalone prototypes.
THE COMPANY
They are a well-established organisation investing heavily in AI innovation to transform business operations and deliver long-term value. Their focus is on deploying practical, scalable AI solutions that support real workflows and business outcomes. You will join a technology-driven environment where engineering excellence, collaboration, and innovation are highly valued.
THE ROLE
As a Lead AI Engineer, you will
Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:
- Own the technical direction, architecture, and implementation of AI systems end-to-end.
- Design and build LLM-powered and agent-based solutions from concept through to production.
- Establish engineering standards, reusable patterns, and scalable frameworks across AI initiatives.
- Make key decisions on models, tooling, infrastructure, and system design.
- Ensure AI systems are robust, observable, secure, and production-ready through effective evaluation, monitoring, and guardrails.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineers working on AI projects.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
The successful Lead AI Engineer will have the following skills and experience:
- Strong commercial experience delivering production-grade AI systems from design through deployment.
- Deep expertise in Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), orchestration, prompting, and evaluation.
- Experience building agentic or multi-step AI systems.
- Excellent software engineering fundamentals across APIs, system design, and cloud-based architecture.
- Ability to define technical direction and operate effectively in complex or evolving environments.
- Experience influencing engineering standards and best practices across multiple projects.
- Exposure to AI platforms, reusable frameworks, LLMOps/MLOps, or enterprise AI environments would be beneficial.
BENEFITS
The successful Lead AI Engineer will receive the following benefits:
- Salary between £95,000 – £115,000 – depending on experience
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your resume to Majid Latif via the Apply link on this page.

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Senior AI Engineer
London
£75000 - £95000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentLondon
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Senior AI Engineer
£75,000 – £95,000
King’s Cross, London (1-2 days a week in office)
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior AI Engineer to play a key role in shaping how AI is embedded across a business. Rather than building standalone proofs of concept, you will develop production-grade AI solutions that directly support core business processes, delivering measurable value at scale.
THE COMPANY
They are a well-established organisation investing heavily in AI and advanced technology. With a focus on innovation, they are building scalable solutions that enhance operational efficiency and customer outcomes. Their environment combines strong engineering practices with the opportunity to work on high-impact AI initiatives. You will join a collaborative team where technical expertise and continuous improvement are highly valued.
THE ROLE
As a Senior AI Engineer, you will design and deliver production-ready AI solutions using LLMs and agentic systems, embedding AI into core business processes to drive measurable impact.
Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:
- Design and implement end-to-end AI systems that deliver business impact.
- Build and deploy LLM-powered and agent-based solutions from concept through to production.
- Contribute to technical architecture and engineering best practices.
- Develop reusable components, frameworks, and patterns across multiple AI use cases.
- Make informed decisions on models, tooling, infrastructure, and system design.
- Ensure AI solutions are scalable, observable, secure, and production-ready.
- Support evaluation, monitoring, and governance processes for deployed AI systems.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers contributing to AI projects.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
The successful Senior AI Engineer will have the following skills and experience:
- Strong commercial experience delivering production-grade AI systems.
- Expertise in generative AI, large language models, prompting, orchestration, and evaluation.
- Experience designing and implementing complex AI solutions across multiple domains.
- Knowledge of agentic AI systems and multi-step workflows.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including APIs, system design, and cloud-native architectures.
- Ability to solve problems in evolving and ambiguous environments.
- Experience influencing engineering standards and contributing to technical excellence.
- Exposure to AI platforms, reusable frameworks, LLMOps, or MLOps is advantageous.
- Experience working within enterprise or regulated environments would be beneficial.
BENEFITS
The successful Senior AI Engineer will receive the following benefits:
- Salary between £75,000 – £95,000 – depending on experience
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your resume to Majid Latif via the Apply link on this page.

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Senior AI Engineer
London
£90000 - £120000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentLondon
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Senior AI Engineer
£90,000 – £120,000
London (3 days a week in office)
This is an exciting opportunity to join a newly established AI innovation team at a globally recognised organisation. You will help shape the future of AI-powered products, working on cutting-edge generative AI applications that move rapidly from concept to production. The role offers significant visibility, real impact, and the chance to influence how AI is used at scale.
THE COMPANY
They are a well-established international organisation with a strong reputation for delivering trusted products and services to a global audience. Operating across multiple markets, they are investing heavily in AI innovation and building a dedicated team focused on exploring the next generation of intelligent products. Their environment combines technical excellence, experimentation, and a commitment to responsible AI development.
THE ROLE
As a Senior AI Engineer you will join a high-impact AI team focused on developing and deploying advanced generative AI solutions.
Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:
- Building and deploying LLM-powered applications from prototype through to production
- Fine-tuning large language models for specific use cases and content requirements
- Designing, curating, and managing datasets for model training and evaluation
- Developing and optimising Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines
- Creating evaluation frameworks and quality metrics for AI model performance
- Implementing human-in-the-loop feedback systems to improve outputs
- Supporting AI-driven features such as summarisation, personalisation, and real-time content generation
- Exploring speech and audio technologies, including text-to-speech solutions
- Collaborating closely with product, engineering, and design teams to deliver innovative AI experiences
- Contributing to experiments involving multimodal AI across text, image, and audio
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
The successful Senior AI Engineer will have the following skills and experience:
- Strong commercial experience building LLM or NLP-based systems
- Hands-on experience with platforms such as OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Cohere, Mistral, or Hugging Face
- Expertise in fine-tuning techniques, including supervised fine-tuning and prompt optimisation
- Strong understanding of RLHF, RLAIF, and preference modelling approaches
- Advanced Python development skills
- Experience with tools and frameworks such as LangChain and Hugging Face Transformers
- Familiarity with data tooling including Pandas, DVC, and Weights & Biases
- Experience evaluating model performance using both quantitative and qualitative metrics
- Knowledge of speech technologies, including speech-to-text and text-to-speech solutions
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, experimental environment
BENEFITS
The successful Senior AI Engineer will receive the following benefits:
- Salary between £90,000 – £120,000 – depending on experience
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your resume to Majid Latif via the Apply link on this page.

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Senior SC Cleared AI Engineer
London
£400 - £560
+ Data Science & AI
ContractLondon
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Senior SC Cleared AI Engineer
Remote (UK) | Outside IR35
This is an opportunity to join a long-term, mission-critical AI programme delivering cutting-edge solutions in highly secure environments. You’ll work on genuinely technical challenges, building AI applications from concept through to production, with the freedom to shape solutions in a fully remote contract role.
The Company
They are a specialist technology consultancy delivering software, data and AI solutions across complex, high-security environments. Their work focuses on solving challenging technical problems through modern engineering practices and innovative AI technologies. As part of a major long-term programme, they are expanding their AI engineering capability to support the delivery of secure, production-grade solutions. The environment is hands-on, collaborative, and focused on technical excellence.
The Role and Deliverables
- Design, build and deploy secure AI-powered applications and services.
- Develop solutions using LLMs, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and agentic AI frameworks.
- Deploy and operate self-hosted AI models in restricted, air-gapped environments.
- Build across the full stack using Python, TypeScript, APIs, and SQL/NoSQL databases.
- Collaborate with technical teams and stakeholders to translate evolving requirements into working software.
- Produce clear technical documentation and support solutions through to operational handover.
Your Skills & Experience
- Active SC Clearance and current BPSS eligibility.
- Strong hands-on experience building full-stack applications using Python and TypeScript.
- Experience developing and deploying LLM, RAG, and agentic AI solutions.
- Strong knowledge of Docker, containerisation, and self-hosted model deployments.
- Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases in production environments.
- Ability to turn ambiguous requirements into practical, scalable technical solutions.
- Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience delivering technology solutions within secure government, defence, or similarly regulated environments is highly desirable.
- Exposure to Azure, GCP, vector databases, semantic search, knowledge graphs, or AI observability tools would be beneficial.
How to Apply
If you’re an SC-cleared AI Engineer with a strong software engineering background and experience deploying secure AI solutions, apply today to learn more about this exciting contract opportunity.

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AI Full Stack Developer
Remote
$50 - $80
+ Data Science & AI
ContractMaryland
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AI Full Stack Developer
Harnham, the leading recruitment specialist in Data and AI, is currently partnering with a premier data, AI, and marketing consulting firm that helps Fortune 1000 companies and Private Equity-backed businesses unlock transformational value through data, technology, and human expertise.
- Role: AI Full Stack Developer
- Location: Remote
- Pay: $50 – $80 per hour W2 only
- Length: Extendable 3 month initial contract
- Utilization: 40 hours/week
- Benefits: W2 employees are eligible for health, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
As an AI Full Stack Developer, you will own architecture and delivery across multiple workstreams for Intelligent Applications. You will define best practices for forward-deployed AI engagements, establish engineering standards and quality controls, and mentor engineers across multiple teams. You will play a key role in operationalizing LLM and agent-based solutions, ensuring they are scalable, secure, observable, and production-ready.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead multiple technical workstreams across frontend, API, and data layers, ensuring alignment, integration, and successful delivery.
- Define and implement reference architectures, engineering standards, testing frameworks, observability practices, and security controls.
- Drive data architecture and performance optimization decisions, including SQL performance tuning, indexing strategies, and data contracts.
- Build reusable development accelerators, including templates, scaffolds, CI/CD quality gates, and LLM/RAG reference frameworks.
- Partner with data engineering teams leveraging Databricks and/or Snowflake to ensure scalable and secure application integration.
- Establish containerization and CI/CD best practices, including release verification, environment parity, and deployment guardrails.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 6-8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership.
- Strong expertise in full-stack development using React and/or Angular, Python services, and modern application architectures.
- Proven experience designing and deploying production-grade LLM applications, including RAG systems, tool integrations, evaluations, and governance frameworks.
- Experience implementing software engineering best practices, including testing, observability, CI/CD, and security standards.
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering governance, including verification workflows, secrets management, PII protection, and supply chain security.
- Nice to have: Experience with Databricks and/or Snowflake environments and agentic AI development frameworks.
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Full Stack AI Engineer
£500 - £560
+ Data Science & AI
ContractEngland
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SC Cleared Full Stack AI Engineer (Contract)
Outside IR35:£500-£560
Fully Remote
Immediate Start
This is an opportunity to work on high-impact AI applications within the defence and national security space. You will build full-stack AI prototypes and production-ready applications, working across LLMs, RAG, data, APIs and infrastructure in a highly secure environment.
The Company
They are a specialist organisation delivering advanced science, technology and AI capabilities within the UK defence sector. Their work focuses on applying emerging technology to complex, mission-critical challenges. They partner with specialist technology suppliers to develop secure AI solutions and applications. Due to the nature of the project, security clearance is an important requirement.
The Role and Deliverables
- Design and build full-stack AI applications across front-end, back-end, API and infrastructure layers.
- Develop solutions using Python, TypeScript, HTML and CSS.
- Build prototypes and progress AI solutions towards production-ready applications.
- Develop applications leveraging Large Language Models, RAG, vector databases, semantic search and knowledge graphs.
- Design data models across SQL and NoSQL technologies and contribute to application architecture.
- Deploy and operate LLM-based solutions within secure, air-gapped environments.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong full-stack AI engineering capability, covering both front-end and back-end development.
- Strong Python and TypeScript skills, alongside HTML and CSS.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation and production AI applications.
- Experience with SQL, NoSQL, data modelling and API architecture.
- Knowledge of vector databases, semantic search and knowledge graphs.
- Cloud engineering experience, ideally with GCP, although AWS experience is also relevant.
- Experience with Docker and infrastructure supporting AI applications.
- Active SC clearance is highly desirable. Lapsed SC clearance may also be considered, subject to the project’s security requirements and BPSS checks.
How to Apply
If you are a SC Cleared Full Stack AI Engineer with experience building secure, production-focused LLM and RAG applications, apply to discuss the contract and project in more detail.

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AI Full Stack Engineer (Contract)
London
£500 - £550
+ Data Science & AI
ContractLondon
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Full Stack AI Engineer (Contract)
MUST HAVE: SC Clearance
£500 – £550 Per Day
Outside IR35
Immediate Start
Fully Remote
The Company
They are a specialist technology organisation delivering AI, software engineering, and data solutions within secure and complex environments. Their work focuses on solving challenging technical problems using modern machine learning and cloud technologies. The team combines deep engineering expertise with a strong focus on innovation, deploying solutions that operate at scale in mission-critical settings.
The Role and Deliverables
- Design and develop full stack AI applications using Python and TypeScript.
- Build and enhance frontend interfaces, backend services, APIs, and application architectures.
- Develop and deploy LLM-powered solutions, including RAG pipelines and agentic AI applications.
- Integrate and manage SQL and NoSQL data stores, ensuring effective data modelling and system performance.
- Implement vector databases, semantic search capabilities, and knowledge graph solutions.
- Take AI products from proof of concept through to production-ready deployment, including secure infrastructure and containerised environments.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience as a Full Stack AI Engineer or in a similar AI-focused software engineering role.
- Advanced capability with Python and TypeScript across frontend and backend development.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG architectures, agentic AI, and modern AI frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of APIs, system integration, application architecture, and database technologies.
- Experience using Docker and deploying AI solutions within cloud environments such as Azure or GCP.
- Knowledge of vector databases, semantic search, and knowledge graph technologies.
- Experience deploying AI systems within secure or restricted environments is highly advantageous.
- Exposure to defence, government, national security, or similarly regulated sectors is beneficial.
- Active or previously held security clearance is advantageous.
How to Apply
If you’re interested in applying your AI engineering expertise to innovative, large-scale projects, please apply with your latest CV.

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AI Engineer (contract)
Amsterdam
€75 - €96
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentAmsterdam, North Holland
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AI Engineer (Contract)
Amsterdam / Hybrid | Competitive Day Rate | Contract
A digital-first organisation is looking for an AI Engineer Contractor to help deliver Generative AI solutions across its analytics and reporting landscape.
The Role
Build and deploy GenAI applications
Develop AI-powered analytics and reporting solutions
Deliver production-ready tools that drive business value
Work closely with Data & AI stakeholders
Your Skills & Experience
Hands-on experience with Generative AI and LLMs
Experience deploying AI solutions into production
Strong Python and modern AI tooling experience
Background delivering analytics-focused use cases
What They Offer
Competitive contract rate
High-impact AI projects
Opportunity for contract extension

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