Job title – AI Consultant / Developer

Client Location – Budapest, Hungary

Remote work offering – 100%

Client Industry – IT Consulting

Contract Length – 12 months (with extension)

Contract type – Freelance

Project focus

Our client is delivering enterprise AI for a global manufacturing organisation and needs a hands-on consultant/developer to take AI use cases from proof of concept to stable production. You’ll build LLM-based applications, AI agents and intelligent assistants (RAG, semantic search, chat assistants, document intelligence and multi-step agent workflows), integrate them with enterprise systems, and own them through deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement. You’ll also work with business teams to identify and prioritise high-value use cases and help define reusable AI standards and reference architectures.

Key skills and Experience required

• Proven hands-on background in AI engineering, AI consulting or software engineering
• Strong Python, building production-grade backend services, APIs and integrations
• Practical LLM / Generative AI experience, including prompt engineering, tool/function calling and structured outputs
• RAG implementation: vector search, embeddings, document ingestion and enterprise knowledge integration
• Agentic AI: orchestration, planning, memory, guardrails, human-in-the-loop and multi-agent systems
• AI/agent frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI or Pydantic
• DevOps: Git, CI/CD, automated testing, Docker and cloud deployment
• Running AI applications in production: monitoring, observability, performance tuning and cost management
• Building evaluation frameworks for model and agent quality (accuracy, hallucination, safety)
• Secure coding, data privacy, access control and responsible AI practices
• Able to explain complex technical topics clearly to business stakeholders
• Manufacturing, automotive, industrial or logistics exposure (ERP, MES, PLM, IoT) is a plus

If this role is of interest, please apply with an updated CV.

Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Minenhle Mdluli