AI Engineer: Sponsorship Available

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Job Summary

This role will lead the development, deployment and operationalisation of next-generation, agentic AI-driven services to address real-world healthcare challenges across the Northwest of England. Working within a secure, high-availability analytics research environment (KARECTL), the post holder will collaborate closely with clinical, academic, data engineering and infrastructure teams to translate AI research outputs into safe, reliable and impactful operational solutions.

The post holder will play a key role in bridging research and clinical operations, ensuring that emerging AI and large language model (LLM) capabilities are deployed responsibly, at scale, and in line with NHS Digital, GDPR and Information Governance requirements. This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of AI, health informatics and clinical practice, contributing directly to improved patient care and service delivery.

 

Main duties of the job

  • Design, deploy and optimise agentic AI workflows within a secure, containerised analytics environment
  • Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines supporting AI development, deployment and monitoring
  • Establish and operate robust ML/LLMOps processes to support reliable, high-quality AI inference
  • Work collaboratively with academic researchers to operationalise AI and LLM research outputs
  • Integrate agentic AI solutions into existing NHS clinical and operational workflows
  • Engage with data and infrastructure teams to implement solutions across the wider KARECTL ecosystem
  • Ensure all AI solutions align with organisational strategy, clinical priorities and governance requirements
  • Implement monitoring, observability, audit and reporting mechanisms for deployed AI agents
  • Produce clear technical documentation and deployment guidance for all solutions delivered

Person Specification

Relevant AI Experience

Essential

  • Degree in Computer Science, AI Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
  • Relevant Experience

Desirable

  • Postgraduate Degree
  • Evidence of service delivery

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 28 May 2026

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