Role: AI Engineer
Contract Length: 12 months with possibility of extension(s)
Location: Hybrid/Edinburgh or Glasgow - On-site collaboration may be required depending on project/team requirements
IR35: Outside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £480.75 per day
Security Clearance: BPSS
Spinwell is recruiting for an AI Engineer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE AI ENGINEER
Experienced software engineers are required to provide hands-on technical leadership to an agile development team within client’s Land Registration domain seeking to leverage document processing and ML to realise new automation opportunities for the organisation
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE AI ENGINEER
Significant commercial experience with the following technology:
- OCR, Object Detection and LLM analysis
- Machine Learning & AI Libraries
- Transformers/Hugging Face for working with pre-trained LLMs, finetuning, and inference
- PyTorch for deep learning model development and training
- OpenCV for computer vision tasks and image preprocessing in object detection
- PIL/Pillow for image manipulation and format conversion
- YOLO object detection frameworks, Core Python skills:
- Proficiency in Python 3.9+ with strong understanding of object oriented programming, decorators, context managers, and async/await patterns
- Data structures and algorithms for efficient data processing and model optimization
- Error handling and debugging using try-catch blocks, logging, and debugging tools
- Data Processing
- Pandas and NumPy for data manipulation, cleaning, and numerical operations
- SQLAlchemy or psycopg2 for database connectivity and ORM operations
- Boto3 for comprehensive AWS service integration and automation
- AWS
- Lambda function development with proper event handling and response formatting
- S3 operations including multipart uploads, presigned URLs, and event notifications
- CloudWatch logging and metrics for monitoring and debugging
- IAM and security understanding for role-based access and credential management
- CDK
- SQS
- EKS/ECS/Kubernetes
- API Development
- FastAPI for building REST APIs and model serving endpoints
- Requests library for HTTP client operations and external API integration
- Authentication/authorization implementation (JWT, OAuth)
Significant and demonstrable experience in the following areas:
- Making excellent quality software with other people.
- Ability to engage with stakeholders, understanding context and requirements, from diverse areas of a business including Product Management, Service Design, and Operations.
- Design and implementation of solutions using a service-based and serverless architecture.
- Using written, verbal, and visual communication to explain complex topics concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana.
- Experience working in the Agile delivery models - such as Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks.
- Formal XP engineering techniques.
- Defining infrastructure-as-code.
If you are an AI Engineer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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