Senior AI Engineer
Role Summary
Join 51D as a Senior AI Engineer, leading complex AI projects in a remote setting within the UK. Own the architecture and enhance client solutions with AI technology.
About the Organisation
Fifty One Degrees is a UK AI and data consultancy, founded in 2023 by Nick and Mark who both built and sold their own companies. Prior to 51D, Nick Harding (CEO) founded and scaled the fintech Fluro to four million credit applications a year. Mark Somers (CPO) built 4most into the UK's largest independent credit risk consultancy.
We embed practitioners in client teams and build the best solution that will drive for maximum client value. Strategy, governance and training are also key, but we stay and build rather than hand over a document and leave.
We're a fast-growing startup and the client list is highly varied with clients across financial services, retail, property and PR (to name a few).
This role is for a client-facing consultant that works as a software engineer. Coding ability is non-negotiable, but you'll spend time in front of clients as well as in an editor.
A real part of what we do is AI enablement and strategy: helping client teams adopt AI tooling, redesigning how they work around it, and building the systems that make it stick. This means configuring and integrating as well as writing code from scratch. If you are looking for a role that's only heads-down engineering, this isn't it. If you want to see how AI actually lands inside a business and unlocks value, this is the role for you.
Working Conditions
Remote (UK), with optional access to a number of London-based co-working spaces.What you'll do
- Take a build end to end: architecture, implementation, deployment and handover.
- Design production AI systems, agents, retrieval, evaluation and the data plumbing underneath them.
- Work alongside client engineering teams, and directly with Nick and Mark, with no layer in between.
- Mentor and support our AI and graduate engineers, sharing what you know as the team grows.
Requirements
Eligibility Criteria
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