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Base pay range

• 6 month contract within the public sector
• Mostly remote working - occasional travel to Scotland
• 520 per day outside IR35

AI Engineer (Python)

Our public sector client is looking for experienced software engineers to provide hands-on technical leadership to an agile development, seeking to leverage document processing and ML to realise new automation opportunities for the organisation.

Skills And Experience

• OCR, Object Detection and LLM analysis implementation
• Machine Learning and AI Libraries including:
• Transformers/Hugging Face for working with pre-trained LLMs, fine-tuning, and inference
• PyTorch for deep learning model development and training
• OpenCV for computer vision tasks and image preprocessing in object detection
• PIL/Pillow for image manipulation and format conversion
• YOLO object detection frameworks
• Proficiency in Python 3.9+ with understanding of object-oriented programming, decorators, context managers, and async/await patterns
• Data structures and algorithms for efficient data processing and model optimization
• Error handling and debugging using try-catch blocks, logging, and debugging tools
• Pandas and NumPy for data manipulation, cleaning, and numerical operations
• SQLAlchemy or psycopg2 for database connectivity and ORM operations
• Boto3 for AWS service integration and automation
• AWS Cloud

Day to Day

• Enhancing and expanding the productionised automation service based on the findings from initial milestone deliveries. This service leverages OCR, Object Detection and LLM AI in order to automate land register applications.
• Develop system components to support deed OCR, Object Detection and LLM analysis of title changes, Conduct spikes and research to increase the scope of the automation service.
• Provide high quality support of the operational service.
• Research and development of novel solutions that enable automation goals.
• Demonstrate excellent, sustainable, and collaborative software development practice that's focused on delivering highly readable, maintainable, and appropriate artefacts.
• Extend and sustain the high-quality support procedures, dashboards, monitoring and deployment capabilities to ensure the team can continue to improve services via feedback.
• Actively participating in all team events, leading where specialist knowledge is required, and supporting the team to improve their process through inspection and adaptation.
• Engage with the wider communities of practice and interest to share knowledge, techniques, and experience.
• Ensure high quality of developed solutions through development and maintenance of unit tests - with appropriate code coverage - and code analysis using code quality tools.
• Ensure that developed software complies with non-functional requirements, such as accessibility, security, UI/UX, performance, maintainability, deployability, etc...
• Troubleshoot development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms, from the AWS-based modern stack to the multiple strands of ETL and database (legacy and otherwise) that underpins the service.
• Routinely use collaborative development practices such as pairing and mobbing techniques in programming, code reviews, system design and requirements analysis/refinement, etc.
• Coaching and mentoring other team members, as appropriate.

Next Steps

If you have the relevant skills and experience, and are interested in finding out more about this opportunity, please apply with your up to date CV and we will endeavour to get back to you.

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Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Part-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

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