Contract Job Title: AI Engineer (Google ADK, LLM, ML, A2A) Contract Start Date: March 2026 Contract Length: Likely 6 months Contract Classification: Inside IR25 Contract Location: London (2/3 days in the office)· Design, build, and deploy AI agents using Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Vertex AI Agent Builder, integrating with APIs and systems.· Develop and orchestrate Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication flows, enabling collaboration, task delegation, and information sharing among agents.· Implement LLM-based components, prompt templates, function calling, structured outputs using frameworks.· Build and optimize RAG pipelines integrating Vertex AI Search / Matching Engine, vector databases and document stores.· Engineer context and memory modules for agents, defining knowledge retrieval, embedding strategies, and session continuity logic.· Develop API integrations and connectors enabling real-time data exchange between agents, backend services, and UI/UX interfaces.· Collaborate with data and ML teams to design ML workflows preprocessing, fine-tuning, deployment, and monitoring on Vertex AI Pipelines.· Apply prompt engineering and grounding techniques to ensure model responses are contextually accurate, explainable, and compliant.· Ensure scalability, observability, and compliance of deployed agents across hybrid (cloud + on-prem) infrastructures.· Partner with Data Engineers, UI/UX teams, AI Architects and Product teams to translate business requirements into technical agent logic, testing strategies, and continuous improvement loops.· Experience with handling quantitative / numerically heavy use cases· Experience with banking related AI/GenAI use cases