Senior AI Product & Research Engineer (Consultant)

Version 1•New York, NY

1h•Remote

About The Position

Version 1, a company with 30 years in business and over 3300 employees, is seeking a Senior AI Product & Research Engineer (Consultant). This role involves designing, prototyping, and scaling enterprise-grade AI products, combining deep technical AI expertise with strong product intuition and hands-on experience with modern AI development tools and coding agents. The successful candidate will collaborate with leadership, engineering, and research teams to transform ambitious AI concepts into deployable, secure, and scalable production systems. Version 1 is an award-winning employer, recognized as a Great Place to Work and for its commitment to wellbeing and diversity, operating with core values and a focus on employee investment.

Requirements

8 - 12+ years of experience across AI/ML engineering, applied research, or AI product development.
Demonstrated experience building and shipping enterprise-grade AI products.
Deep familiarity with modern AI stacks (LLMs, RAG systems, fine-tuning, embeddings, orchestration frameworks).
Hands-on experience using AI coding agents and AI-assisted development tools in production workflows.
Strong product instincts: ability to balance technical feasibility, business value, and user experience.
Proficiency in Python and modern AI frameworks

Nice To Haves

Experience deploying AI systems in regulated or security-sensitive environments.
Familiarity with distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
Background working at leading AI labs, big tech, or high-performance startups.
Experience designing internal AI platforms used by multiple teams.

Responsibilities

Translate business and research objectives into scalable AI product architectures.
Rapidly prototype AI-driven applications using modern AI coding agents and developer copilots.
Design and implement enterprise-grade AI systems across model development, evaluation, and deployment.
Lead applied research efforts across LLMs, agentic systems, retrieval architectures, and applied ML.
Establish evaluation frameworks to measure model quality, safety, robustness, and business impact.
Architect production-ready AI applications with strong observability, monitoring, and iteration loops.
Advise on AI tooling, vendor selection, infrastructure alignment, and technical roadmap decisions.
Mentor internal engineers on modern AI development workflows and best practices.

Benefits

Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more.
Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.
Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.
And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.