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AI Engineer / Machine Learning Engineer / Generative AI Engineer (Azure)

Hackajob
London, United KingdomPosted Aug 8, 2026
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AI Engineer / Machine Learning Engineer / Generative AI Engineer (Azure)

hackajob London, England, United Kingdom

AI Engineer / Machine Learning Engineer / Generative AI Engineer (Azure)

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hackajob is collaborating with Sainsbury's DTD to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

Every week we move millions of products to our customers at record speeds. Brilliant customer experiences at this kind of pace, require fresh and appealing products to be available whenever and however our customers shop with us. And in this area of our business, we help to make sure that happens.

By engineering innovative, smart technology, we put the tools in our colleagues’ hands to power a global supply chain. Whether it’s wine from New Zealand or milk from the local dairy farm, our tech performs. We solve problems at scale. We process billions of records, predicting and planning to make our customers lives easier. We keep ours and stores operating smoothly around the clock, because what’s important to our customers, is important to us.

We are looking for an AI Engineer to work within a team engaged in delivering and running multi brand AI powered telephony and chat system in Azure. The role involves ensuring the scalability, reliability, security, and efficiency of the application.

About The Role

  • Help lead on the delivery of best in class Generative & Agentic AI services to Sainsbury’s
  • Deploy and configure production systems, with a particular focus on automation, scalability and security.
  • Collaborate with other Engineers to design, implement and evolve the system
  • Engage in the expansion of the evaluation framework, collaborating with product owners and architects to ensure that solutions help customers and achieve the logistics business goals
  • Monitor new features/functionality and assess their Ops implications to continuously improve services.
  • Discover and recommend ways to improve reliability and efficiency
  • Maintain an overarching service dashboard and reporting
  • Produce and maintain documentation of support processes & resolutions to known operational issues.
  • Participate in a 24/7 on call rota as required

Essential Criteria

  • Proven Azure commercial experience in AI Foundry, ACS / Telephony, Voice Live, Azure ML
  • Proven industry experience with Python, Javascript, Typescript, React, Redux, Java
  • Experience with LLM’s including realtime models
  • Experience with Docker, Container Apps, containerised distributed systems, Terraform, Kafka, New Relic, MCP, Websockets
  • Experienced in writing automated tests and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Proven experience of source and version control tools such as GitHub
  • Be experienced working with Agile delivery teams in a fast paced, DevOps environment
  • Be diligent and positive about tracking (JIRA), system monitoring, security & auditing
  • Feed your insights to continuously improve the platform
  • Be an active contributing part of an agile development team
  • The ability to engage with and influence stakeholders

Desirable

  • Familiarity with Genesys would be a positive

As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get:

  • Colleague discount across our multi-brands - Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat
  • Holiday allowance
  • Bonus scheme
  • Pension plan
  • Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

  • Seniority level

    Entry level

  • Employment type

    Full-time

  • Job function

    Engineering and Information Technology

  • Industries

    Software Development

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