Staff AI Engineer - Software Development

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Join a leading AI-powered pricing and underwriting platform transforming how commercial insurers understand, price, and manage risk. This organisation supports insurers, reinsurers, and MGAs with faster, more confident decision-making across pricing, rating, and portfolio optimisation, combining deep actuarial expertise with advanced engineering.

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Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end execution to improve agent success, latency, and reliability within the core platform.
• Lead an "explore/exploit" model, utilising technical spikes and kill criteria to effectively de-risk R&D initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Research teams to validate complex use cases and steer the long-term AI roadmap.
• Drive the Developer Experience (DevEx) roadmap and CI/CD infrastructure to accelerate AI deployment cycles.
• Actively mentor AI Engineers into technical leaders capable of owning and scaling complex agentic architectures.

Skills/Must have:

• Proven experience shipping and running LLM-based systems in a production environment (not just internal prototypes).
• Production-grade Python engineering skills, must be comfortable writing robust, scalable code beyond simple scripting.
• Articulate complex AI concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A methodical approach to de-risking research and turning it into reliable software.

Benefits:

• Participation in a stock option scheme.
• £5,000 annual training budget to keep you at the forefront of AI.
• Comprehensive private healthcare.

Salary:

• £130,000 – £160,000 (Based on experience)