Principal AI Engineer - South West London (1-2 days a week)
GCP REQUIRED
We are working with a growing, tech-driven insurance company looking for an AI Engineer to help build and deploy production-grade AI systems. You’ll play a key role in shaping AI-first products, developing end-to-end agents, and creating robust evaluation and monitoring frameworks.
Responsibilities:
*Build and operate AI-powered products that deliver measurable outcomes.
*Develop production-ready AI agents on GCP, including secure API integrations.
*Integrate agent capabilities into applications using MCP servers and supporting tools.
*Develop reliable RAG pipelines, including ingestion, chunking, metadata and vector search.
Required:
*Strong Python skills for backend, APIs, testing and async patterns.
*Practical experience with LLMs, embeddings, prompt/function calling and vector databases.
*Solid knowledge of GCP services (Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud Run/Functions) and Google’s ADK.
*Experience with document processing, text normalisation and storage systems (Postgres, Redis, GCS/BigQuery).
*Familiarity with DevOps practices: Git, CI/CD, Docker, observability and automated testing.
*A product-focused mindset and the ability to translate needs into intuitive AI workflows.