Robert Half Technology are assisting a market leading financial services (fintech) organisation to recruit a AI Engineer on a contract basis - Hybrid working - London based

The AI Engineer will join a cross-functional data team to design, develop, and deploy AI/ML models that tackle real business problems - from prediction and automation to customer personalisation and decision intelligence. You'll play a hands-on role in taking models from concept to production and shaping best practices across the AI lifecycle.

Role

• The AI Engineer will build and deploy scalable machine learning models in a cloud-native environment (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and product teams to translate business needs into AI-driven solutions
• Contribute to the development of data pipelines and feature engineering workflows
• Integrate models into production using APIs, batch jobs, or real-time systems
• Apply best practices around experimentation, evaluation, versioning, and monitoring
• Contribute to documentation, knowledge sharing, and process improvements

Profile

• The AI Engineer will have a proven commercial experience delivering AI/ML projects end-to-end in production environments
• Strong Python skills with hands-on use of ML libraries like Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Hugging Face
• Solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals and performance evaluation techniques
• Experience working in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) with MLOps tools (e.g. MLflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI)
• Comfortable working independently and delivering high-quality work to tight timelines
• Experience working in fast-paced environments or scale-up settings

Company

• Market leading financial services (fintech) organisation with offices in London
• Hybrid working - London based
• Initial 6 month contract

Salary & Benefits

The salary range/rates of pay is dependent upon your experience, qualifications or training.

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