Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Job Title: AI Engineer – Trading Analytics (Databricks & LLMs)

Duration: Contract

Workload: Full time hours

Setup: Freelance (Daily rate / Limited Company / Umbrella / Sole Trader)

Location: London - hybrid working

We need an AI Engineer with a strong data engineering core to build AI‑powered analytics for front‑office trading teams using Databricks, Spark, and modern LLM workflows.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and deliver AI‑driven analytics for traders, including seasonality, correlations, regression, forecasting, and scenario modelling.
• Build scalable, reusable data pipelines in Databricks using PySpark, Spark SQL, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog.
• Perform statistical and econometric analysis on large market and fundamentals time‑series datasets.
• Work directly with traders and analysts to turn ambiguous questions into production‑ready tools and clear insights.
• Implement LLM and agentic workflows (prompt engineering, LangGraph, MCP, tool calling, retrieval, guardrails).
• Productionise solutions with testing, observability, versioning, documentation, and CI/CD.

Must‑Have Skills:

• Hands‑on Databricks and Spark expertise (PySpark, SQL, Delta, Unity Catalog).
• Strong data engineering background: ingestion, modelling, orchestration, performance tuning.
• Solid statistics/econometrics for market time series.
• Experience building and integrating LLM solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Nice‑to‑Have:

• Commodity or financial trading background.
• Knowledge of market microstructure, supply/demand fundamentals, or risk.