Robert Half Technology are assisting a market leading financial services (fintech) organisation to recruit a AI Engineer on a contract basis - Hybrid working - London based The AI Engineer will join a cross-functional data team to design, develop, and deploy AI/ML models that tackle real business problems - from prediction and automation to customer personalisation and decision intelligence. You''ll play a hands-on role in taking models from concept to production and shaping best practices across the AI lifecycle.RoleThe AI Engineer will build and deploy scalable machine learning models in a cloud-native environment (AWS, GCP or Azure)Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and product teams to translate business needs into AI-driven solutionsContribute to the development of data pipelines and feature engineering workflowsIntegrate models into production using APIs, batch jobs, or real-time systemsApply best practices around experimentation, evaluation, versioning, and monitoringContribute to documentation, knowledge sharing, and process improvementsProfileThe AI Engineer will have a proven commercial experience delivering AI/ML projects end-to-end in production environmentsStrong Python skills with hands-on use of ML libraries like Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Hugging FaceSolid understanding of machine learning fundamentals and performance evaluation techniquesExperience working in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) with MLOps tools (e.g. MLflow, SageMaker, Ver