Artificial Intelligence Engineer
- Manchester, United Kingdom
Posted 3 days ago
About the role
Artificial Intelligence Engineer | Hands-On Agentic Build | Cybersecurity Software Firm Betting Big on AI
- Salary: £80,000 to £150,000, set on your skills and contribution
- Location: onsite 5 days a week (they have chefs!!)
- No security background needed, and seniority is genuinely open
This client builds cybersecurity software used by security teams the world over, and they’ve made a call most companies only talk about: AI isn’t a side project here, it’s becoming the central way they work across every part of the business. They’re an established firm with the budget and the mandate to move fast on it, and they’re hiring a small number of people to actually do the work. You’d be one of them.
The role is built for someone who builds. You drop into a corner of the business that hasn’t cracked AI yet, embed with the people closest to the work, ship something that genuinely makes their week easier, prove it helped, then move on. You'll be sat with a team for the fortnight, working out where the friction is, building a working tool that saves them hours, evaluating it properly, then handing it over so it keeps running after you’ve gone. Two weeks later you’re on something completely different. You don’t get a permanent team or a permanent desk, and that’s the point.
What They’re Looking For:
- Hands-on AI building (you build, you don’t delegate or direct from a distance)
- A recent, shipped AI project taken from an unscoped brief under your own steam
- Agentic workflow design with real depth, not a borrowed playbook
- Evals: you measure whether what you built actually helped
- Cross-domain range across legal, ops, finance, marketing and support
- A live read on the AI landscape: models, agent frameworks, tooling
- An artefact trail of repos, prototypes, write-ups and side projects
What You’ll Work With:
- Properly funded tooling, nothing blocked or capped
- A roving remit, two weeks to three months per problem, then on to the next
- High autonomy and trust, with no AI team above you to lean on
- Cross-functional exposure across the whole business
- Real influence over standards, bringing in what’s worked for you
Nice to Haves:
- Founding or first-AI-hire experience, building something from nothing
- A track record of standing up evals and driving adoption, not just builds
- Experience pushing for better AI tooling and ambition where you are now
Why Join?
Most AI transformation jobs are strategy roles at arm’s length: frameworks, slide decks, steering committees. This is the opposite. It’s the role for the person who actually wants to do the transforming, with the tooling and the backing to get it done.
If you’re a bit stuck where you are, the spend capped, the good tooling blocked, the ambition missing, this will feel like a release. You’ll be somewhere AI is taken seriously, getting far more done than you would anywhere else and enjoying the work. The variety is the other draw: you’re never in the same corner of the business for long, so you’re never bored.
Employee Benefits:
- Salary of £80,000 to £150,000, set on your skills and contribution
- Share options
- 8% employer pension contribution
- Life assurance at 4x salary
- Income protection
- Private medical insurance
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, please apply and I’ll give you a call if I think you’re suitable.
Artificial Intelligence Engineer | Hands-On Agentic Build | Cybersecurity Software Firm Betting Big on AI