Senior AI Engineer (SC + NPPV3 Cleared)Location: (Hybrid - flexible office/remote split)Rate: Competitive Contract Day Rate (Dependent on experience)Clearance: Active SC Clearance (Required), NPPV3 (Highly Desirable) The Role On behalf of our client, we are seeking a Senior AI Engineer to drive the industrialisation of enterprise-grade AI capabilities across their secure cloud environments. In this role, you will bridge the gap between advanced AI research and mission-critical production systems.You will lead the design and deployment of resilient, stateful agentic workflows, scalable RAG architectures, and highly secure interoperability frameworks. This is a hands-on technical role focused on building sovereign, compliant, and autonomous AI solutions that scale. What You''ll Do Architect Agentic Systems: Design and deploy production-ready multi-agent ecosystems capable of advanced tool calling, state management, long-term memory, and autonomous execution. Build Orchestration Pipelines: Create and operationalise complex AI workflows using modern orchestration frameworks (eg, LangChain, LangGraph). Secure System Interoperability: Implement cutting-edge integration patterns-including Model Context Protocol (MCP)-to connect LLMs seamlessly and securely with client data, tools, and Legacy systems. Industrialise AI Delivery: Establish reusable architectural patterns, robust evaluation pipelines, and standardised deployment frameworks to move AI from prototype to enterprise scal