AI Engineer

AI Engineer - Salary £39,200 to £72,900 (depending on location, skills, experience and qualifications)

Are you passionate about building cutting-edge AI systems that transform how businesses operate? Do you thrive on deploying scalable, production-ready GenAI solutions in cloud-native environments? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our high-profile Insurance, Wealth, and Retirement Analytics Team (based in York, Norwich & Bristol), which is helping to shape the future of insurance through advanced AI and engineering. Aviva is investing heavily in AI as a strategic capability and our team is recognized as a centre of excellence, delivering intelligent systems that enhance decision-making, operations and performance within Aviva.

A bit about the job:

You will join a dynamic team responsible for designing, building, and deploying generative AI solutions across the business. This includes developing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, integrating large language models (LLMs), and deploying services in a secure, scalable cloud environment.

You’ll work with one of the richest insurance datasets in the world, applying modern AI engineering practices to all stages of the development lifecycle—from ingestion and embedding to deployment and monitoring. You’ll collaborate with product owners, architects, and engineers to deliver enterprise-ready GenAI solutions that are robust, compliant, and impactful to our customers and colleagues across the business.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Strong experience in GenAI, RAG and Agentic architectures, including popular frameworks like LangChain and LiteLLM.

• Expertise in Python, JavaScript, or Rust, coupled with experience deploying applications through frameworks such as FastAPI, Django, or React, within containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and infrastructure-as-code.

• Ability to work in regulated environments, with a strong focus on security, compliance, and privacy-preserving AI.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-specialists and collaborate across cross-functional teams.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary between £39,200 and £72,900 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Bonus opportunity – 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.

• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.

• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts

• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Martyn Biddulph a call on 07826 556 965 or send an email to martyn.biddulph@aviva.com.