Senior AI Developer

We're building a next generation agentic AI platform and need a talented, self-starting, experienced Senior developer. The role will require advanced AI manipulation (including prompt engineering) and model tuning. You will be part of a small multi-disciplinary team, solving problems that have never been solved before.

Skills And Experience

Excellent command of English reading, writing, and speakingDeep experience working with LLMs (OpenAI, Claude, Mistral, emphasis on open-source (smaller) models, etc.)Advanced prompt engineering across zero-, few-shot, and chain-of-thought paradigmsExperience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelinesExperience with model fine-tuning techniques, including LoRA, QLoRA, adapters, etc.Strong understanding of Agentic AI architectures, including multi-agent coordination, tool use, and planningExperience with Mixture of Experts (MoE) models and how to route, train, and serve them efficientlyExperience with LLM tooling (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Transformers, etc.)Must be able to work UK office hours

Desirable Skills

Experience with TypeScriptExperience with vector databases, embeddings, and hybrid searchExperience with model hosting, inference infrastructure, and cloud-based deploymentExperience with open-source LLMs and fine-tuning stacks (Axolotl, vLLM, etc.)

Benefits

“Yoodoo” - You can go offline and spend 2 hours of your work time every week on any activity that serves your mental or physical health;You will get 25 days paid Annual Leave per annum;Additional paid day off for festivals, your birthday, any celebration;Paid maternity leave;Paid paternity leave;Paid sick leave;Remote working;Union - who provide assistance and service to everyone at VDPSalary - Competitive market rate

About VDP

🌟Founded 12 years ago in the UK, our company has a worldwide team that offers technology services.👔 We help various clients, including those without their own developers. For them, we build entire teams to develop software from the ground up. We also assist clients who already have platforms and development teams but need help speeding up their work or starting new projects.🛠️ Our skills include a broad range of technologies such as C#, Python, C++, Angular, React, Node.js, and both native and hybrid app development, as well as AI. Since we started, we have always worked remotely, so we don’t have an office, and everyone works from home.🌲 We are a certified B Corp and have proven we are a force for good for our Employees, our Customers, are suppliers our Communities and the Environment.❤️ 10% of what we make goes to our VDP Trust, helping to support projects for Women and Girls around the world.Through our work, our values and our actions, we aim to be a force for good, not just for ourselves and our customers, but for our communities and the world at large;We have four values that we all live by. These are

Collaborate, Compassion, Honesty and Inclusion;