Applied AI Engineer

The company is an established software business investing in the next generation of its product suite and building an Applied AI engineering capability. The Applied AI Engineer will design, build, and deliver production-quality Generative AI functionality within commercial software products, combining C#/.NET software engineering with LLMs, RAG, vector search, agents, and orchestration. The role involves taking AI solutions from prototype to production while ensuring reliability, security, scalability, observability, and commercial value.

Responsibilities:

• Building Generative AI and LLM-powered product features
• Developing RAG and retrieval-based solutions
• Working with embeddings, vector search and knowledge retrieval
• Designing agentic or orchestrated AI workflows
• Integrating commercial LLM APIs into .NET applications
• Building APIs and backend services using C#/.NET
• Evaluating model behaviour, accuracy and reliability
• Reducing hallucination and improving grounding
• Designing appropriate guardrails and validation
• Considering security, observability, scalability and cost
• Taking AI functionality from prototype through to production
• Contributing to architecture and engineering standards
• Working alongside Product to determine where AI genuinely adds value