Senior AI Engineer (BioTech/Pharma) | Outside IR35 Contract
£600 - 700pd | Hybrid, Oxford | 6 Months
Harvey Nash are working with an exciting consultancy who are looking to bring on a highly experienced AI Engineer to support on a crucial project within the BioTech/Pharma space. Industry domain knowledge would be beneficial.
Key Technical Skills Required
- Senior Python engineer with strong production software engineering experience.
- Commercial experience building LLM, agentic AI or multi-agent systems.
- Hands-on experience with LangGraph, LangChain, Haystack or similar frameworks.
- Proven ability to deploy AI/ML systems into production environments.
- Strong knowledge of inference, latency, performance, data pipelines, memory and tool/function calling.
- Experience with large-scale search and retrieval, including embeddings, indexing and querying multi-modal datasets.
- Confident with Docker, Git and cloud platforms, ideally AWS.
- Understanding of secure deployments, including air-gapped, on-premises or sovereign cloud environments.
- Strong technical ownership, documentation and stakeholder communication skills.
Desirable
- Kubernetes, EKS or OpenShift.
- MLOps, monitoring, evaluation and reproducibility.
- Agent orchestration, A2A or MCP.
- Multimodal, edge or offline AI deployments.
- Secure-by-design principles, including ISO 27001, NIST or OWASP.
Contract Details
- £600 - 700pd - dependent on experience
- Outside IR35
- Hybrid - 2 days per week in Oxford
- 6 Months - extensions possible
- 2 Stage IV Process
- ASAP Start
Though SC clearance isn't required from the offset, it is highly advantageous. Subsequently, candidates who are eligible to obtain SC Clearance will also be prioritised.
