Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Surge Group is recruiting Applied AI Engineers for AI startups building and scaling production AI products. The role focuses on turning modern models and techniques into reliable customer-facing products, workflows, and systems, from experimentation through production.

Responsibilities

• Building production-grade LLM applications and agentic workflows
• Designing RAG, retrieval and knowledge systems
• Building evaluations, guardrails and observability for AI products
• Working with structured and unstructured data at scale
• Experimenting with models, prompting, fine-tuning and inference strategies
• Integrating AI systems into real customer workflows
• Taking AI features from prototype through production

Benefits

• Work directly with founders and small technical teams
• Build at the frontier of applied AI
• Own AI systems from experimentation through production
• Ship quickly and see direct customer feedback
• Work on genuinely 0→1 problems
• Join companies where AI is the core product rather than an add-on

Company

• Specialist recruitment solutions for industry-leading businesses
• https://group-surge.com/
• 11-50 employees

Qualifications

• Strong Python and software engineering fundamentals
• Hands-on experience building with modern LLMs
• Experience shipping AI or ML products into production
• Familiarity with RAG, agents, evaluations or model orchestration
• Strong product judgment and experimentation skills
• Ability to move quickly in ambiguous, early-stage environments
• Genuine interest in building practical AI systems rather than purely academic research

Required skills

• AI Agents, AI/ML Product Deployment, Large Language Models (LLMs), Model Evaluation, Model Orchestration, Python, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Experience

• Mid level