AI Engineer

Salary: £50,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong commercial software engineering experience, ideally within the Microsoft technology stack.
• Good development experience with C#/.NET and modern software engineering practices.
• Experience designing, building and deploying production applications within Microsoft Azure.
• Exposure to building AI-enabled applications using technologies such as Azure AI, Microsoft AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Semantic Kernel, Agent Framework or similar.
• Understanding of RAG, LLMs, vector search and agentic AI concepts.
• Experience integrating applications with APIs, cloud services and enterprise systems.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, source control and automated testing.
• Experience building secure, scalable and maintainable production software.
• An interest in emerging AI technologies and how they can be applied to solve real business problems.
• We are particularly interested in software engineers who have started building with AI and want AI engineering to become a bigger part of their career.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable, maintainable software solutions using .NET/C# and Microsoft Azure.
• Build AI capabilities into enterprise applications and existing business processes.
• Develop solutions using Microsoft AI Foundry, Agent Framework and Azure AI services.
• Design APIs, services and integrations to connect AI capabilities with wider enterprise systems.
• Build agentic AI applications, including multi-agent workflows and orchestration.
• Develop RAG solutions using vector search, enterprise data and retrieval techniques.
• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested production code.
• Work with CI/CD pipelines, source control, automated testing and DevOps practices.
• Ensure applications are secure, scalable, resilient and observable.
• Contribute to architecture, technical design and engineering standards.
• Work with stakeholders to understand business problems and translate them into effective software solutions.

Technologies:

• Agentic AI
• AI
• Azure
• C#
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• RAG
• ASP.NET
• Machine Learning

More:

We are a leading UK organisation investing in our internal AI capability and growing a dedicated AI squad. Our team builds enterprise-grade applications and AI solutions around real business challenges, used across a large-scale operational environment. This is a permanent, full-time hybrid role based in Chester, offering a salary of £50,000–£60,000. You will join an established software engineering function and help shape our AI engineering capability using strong engineering practices and the latest Microsoft AI technologies.

last updated 33 week of 2026