AI Integration Engineer - SC-Cleared, Secure LLM Pipelines

iO Associates is seeking an AI Integration Engineer with active UK SC clearance for a contract position in London. The role focuses on backend development, API design, and data pipelines, with hands-on work integrating LLMs and vector databases in secure, classified environments.

You will work on self-hosted, containerised models (Llama, Mistral) on private air-gapped infra, building robust chunking/embedding strategies and orchestration layers.