This role sits within a major UK Defence digital transformation programme, driving the design, build and demonstration of AI/ML proof-of-concepts across sensitive mission data, legacy estates and modern cloud platforms.

If your skills, experience, and qualifications match those in this job overview, do not delay your application.

The environment is heavily aligned to Oracle technologies, so experience with Oracle’s cloud-native AI stack is strongly desired (but not essential).

Key Responsibilities/Experience

• Design, prototype and deliver AI/ML PoCs (RAG pipelines, LLM-powered services, agent-based automation, generative use cases) aligned to Defence workflows and mission needs.

• Build high-performance backend components to support AI workloads, including retrieval layers, vector pipelines, inference services and integrations with platform-native AI capabilities.

• Engineer, fine-tune and optimise ML...