Artificial Intelligence Engineer

AI Engineer| 6 Months (Outside IR35)| Hybrid (Edinburgh/Glasgow)

Harvey Nash’s client is recruiting for a AI Engineer on a 6 month contract.

Main Responsibilities

• Experienced software engineers are required to provide hands-on technical leadership to an agile development team seeking to leverage document processing and ML to realise new automation opportunities for the organisation.
• Enhance and expand automation services using OCR, Object Detection and LLMs.
• Design, develop, and support system components and operational services.
• Conduct research and spikes to extend automation capabilities.
• Ensure high-quality, maintainable, and accessible software through testing, code quality tools, and best practices.
• Maintain and improve monitoring, dashboards, deployment, and support procedures.
• Troubleshoot issues across modern AWS-based systems and legacy ETL/database platforms.
• Contribute to team practices through pairing, mobbing, code reviews, and process improvement.
• Share knowledge across wider communities of practice.
• Mentor and coach team members.

Key Skills

• AI/ML Expertise: Experience with OCR, Object Detection, LLMs, and frameworks such as Transformers (Hugging Face), PyTorch, OpenCV, YOLO.
• Programming: Strong Python (3.9+) skills, including OOP, async patterns, data structures, debugging.
• Data Processing: Proficient with Pandas, NumPy, SQLAlchemy/psycopg2, AWS Boto3.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on AWS (Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, CDK, SQS, EKS/ECS/Kubernetes).
• API Development: FastAPI, REST API design, external integrations, authentication (JWT/OAuth).
• Software Engineering: Building production AI/ML systems, collaborative development, service/serverless architectures.
• Development Practices: Agile (Scrum/Kanban), TDD, pair programming, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring tools (Grafana).

This role falls outside of IR35 and is hybrid working with the expectation to attend the Edinburgh or Glasgow office as and when required. Please note that for this role you must have or be happy to get a Basic Disclosure Scotland. To apply, please send your CV using the link.