# Freelance Senior AI Engineer

Role Details: Level: Lead Start Date: December Duration: 6 months Day Rate: Dependent on experience Weekly hours: 5 days/ week Location: Hybrid, 2 days a week in London We're looking for a Senior AI Engineer to help us reimagine a function of government as part of an agentic ecosystem. You'll join a small multidisciplinary team of designers, researchers and engineers, working closely with civil servants and the department's own technical teams. The work is exploratory. We will learn by building and iterating, leaning on emerging best practices and patterns. We need someone who can build working prototypes quickly, while thinking deeply about the implications of technical decisions. Key skills and experience Must haves: Design and build prototypes that expose services to agents through APIs, MCP servers and agent to agent protocols Design and build agentic systems end to end, including orchestration, tool integrations, and memory and state Build guardrails, evaluations and monitoring to check agents act safely and correctly Work with designers and researchers to test agent-led journeys with real users Advise on technical feasibility, risks and standards, in plain language Turn

- **Id**: 4240539
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/projects-by-if-freelance-senior-ai-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: freelance
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T10:24:48Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T12:01:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2753
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Creative Agencies

## Company

- **Id**: 691093
- **Name**: Projects by IF
- **Domain**: projectsbyif.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/projectsbyif>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T12:01:13Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T17:21:42Z

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