AI Engineer

**Contract Job Title: AI Engineer (Google ADK, LLM, ML, A2A)

Contract Start Date: TBC

Contract Length: Likely 6 months

Contract Classification: Inside IR35

Contract Location: Glasgow (2/3 days in the office)

· Design, build, and deploy AI agents using Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Vertex AI Agent Builder, integrating with APIs and systems.

· Develop and orchestrate Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication flows, enabling collaboration, task delegation, and information sharing among agents.

· Implement LLM-based components, prompt templates, function calling, structured outputs using frameworks.

· Build and optimize RAG pipelines integrating Vertex AI Search / Matching Engine, vector databases and document stores.

· Engineer context and memory modules for agents, defining knowledge retrieval, embedding strategies, and session continuity logic.

· Develop API integrations and connectors enabling real-time data exchange between agents, backend services, and UI/UX interfaces.

· Collaborate with data and ML teams to design ML workflows preprocessing, fine-tuning, deployment, and monitoring on Vertex AI Pipelines.

· Apply prompt engineering and grounding techniques to ensure model responses are contextually accurate, explainable, and compliant.

· Ensure scalability, observability, and compliance of deployed agents across hybrid (cloud + on-prem) infrastructures.

· Partner with Data Engineers, UI/UX teams, AI Architects and Product teams to translate business requirements into technical agent logic, testing strategies, and continuous improvement loops.

· Experience with handling quantitative / numerically heavy use cases

· Experience with banking related AI/GenAI use cases**