AI Engineer (Permanent) Must be a British Citizen due to the nature of the company and work required Salary: (phone number removed) per annum Employment type: Permanent Working pattern: On-site Our client, a growing maritime technology and defence business, is seeking an AI Engineer to help design, develop and deploy secure AI capabilities across the organisation. This role will focus on practical AI adoption across Engineering, Production, Manufacturing, IT and Security and wider corporate functions improving productivity, decision-making, access to information and operational efficiency.The roleDesign, prototype, deploy and support secure AI applications, assistants, agents, knowledge systems and workflow automations using approved Microsoft, cloud-hosted and local platformsDevelop retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search and knowledge-management solutions, connecting AI safely to approved systems, documents, databases and APIsDesign, deploy and govern Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, clients and tools to securely connect AI applications to approved business systems and dataImplement safeguards: authentication, least-privilege permissions, input validation, audit logging and human approval for sensitive actionsEvaluate AI models, platforms, suppliers and use cases for accuracy, security, privacy, data residency, performance, cost and long-term supportabilityHelp define and maintain AI governance, risk assessments and technical standardsApply ..... full job details .....