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Your remit spans learner-facing products and internal AI-first business processes. You will be a technical reference point for the AI Engineering team, owning the design of the systems you build and helping set the standard for how we deliver reliable, secure and scalable AI services.\nAs the Senior AI Engineer, you will:\nLead the design, development and delivery of machine learning, LLM and agentic solutions for learner products and internal business workflows.\nArchitect agentic workflows, including tool use, structured outputs, multi-agent orchestration and human-in-the-loop patterns.\nChampion engineering standards and best practice, and review the designs and code of other engineers.\nOwn the reliability, cost, security and performance of AI services in production.\nBuild and maintain evaluation tooling and observability for models and LLM-based systems.\nMentor AI Engineers and help grow our engineering capability.\nCollaborate with teams across Kaplan, including product, data science, design and learning teams, to translate requirements into technical direction.\nStay current with new AI tools and techniques and set direction on their practical adoption.\nDetailed responsibilities\nTechnical leadership and mentoring\nSet and champion standards for engineering quality, code review and reusable patterns.\nLead the technical approach on ambiguous or novel problems.\nOwn the design of the systems you build and shape architectural decisions across the AI platform, aligned with enterprise architecture.\nMentor and develop AI Engineers through review, pairing and technical guidance.\nModel and agent development\nLead algorithm and framework selection, and design retrieval and grounding strategies, prompts and embeddings.\nDesign, build and evaluate agentic workflows using frameworks such as Microsoft Agent Framework.\nEvaluate models and LLM-based systems using agreed metrics and methods, including golden datasets, LLM-as-judge evaluation, and tracing and observability tooling.\nPartner with data science colleagues, who own modelling and evaluation methodology, while you own production systems and evaluation tooling.\nData management\nWork with data teams to source, clean and version training and retrieval data.\nEnsure data handling meets GDPR and Kaplan's privacy policies.\nDeployment and MLOps\nOwn containerised deployment (Docker/Kubernetes) to cloud platforms.\nLead automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring and alerting.\nManage the capacity, cost and performance of AI services in production.\nCollaboration and support\nProvide technical guidance to product, learning and content teams.\nLead the resolution of production issues and their root causes.\nAct as a technical consultant to business stakeholders on AI-first workflow redesign.\nInnovation and growth\nAssess emerging techniques and paradigms and set direction on their practical adoption.\nChampion new ideas by building prototypes and translating research into tangible solutions.\nShare findings with product and learning stakeholders with clear impact statements.\nYou'll also carry out other duties, within the broad scope and spirit of your role, as requested by your manager. Our business continuously evolves, so your role will too.\nWhat you might be doing now\nYour current role, or recent roles, may be:\nAI Engineer at Kaplan, ready to step up\nSenior Machine Learning Engineer\nSenior Software Engineer leading AI features\nMachine Learning Engineer leading the delivery of LLM or agentic systems\nWhat you'll bring to the role\nThis role suits an experienced, pragmatic engineer who leads by example: someone who balances rapid experimentation with production-level rigour and raises the standard of those around them.\nYou will have:\n5+ years experience in software or machine learning engineering.\nSubstantial experience (typically 2+ years) building and operating LLM-based or agentic systems in production.\nStrong Python skills and knowledge of ML libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn).\nExperience with agent and LLM frameworks (e.g. Microsoft Agent Framework, LangGraph) and prompt engineering.\nStrong MLOps experience: CI/CD, container orchestration 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