Software Developer - Artificial Intelligence

Oxford Economics is hiring an early-career software developer to build and scale AI-enabled capabilities across its products and internal platform. The role involves developing production software and AI services, partnering with product and business teams, and exploring and sharing effective AI engineering practices.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and ship production software that brings AI capabilities to OE: agents, RAG pipelines, conversational interfaces, internal tools, and other client-facing features
• Take ideas from prototype to production, contributing across the software lifecycle: discovery, design, coding, testing, CI/CD, observability, cost monitoring, and safe rollout
• Help build and operate the services, agents, MCPs, shared libraries, Claude skills, and evaluation harnesses that make up OE's AI platform
• Apply solid engineering fundamentals: clean code, testing, modularity, performance, security. Because quality and reliability matter as much in AI systems as anywhere else
• Work with product owners and the rest of the team to turn business needs into tangible, well-scoped deliverables, adapting as those needs evolve
• Partner with our Content, Data and Models teams to understand what they need, growing into embedding alongside them directly as you build context and credibility
• Build with safety and responsible use in mind. Sensible data handling, prompt-injection defences, and alignment with ISO 27001 controls and OE's AI Acceptable Use Policy
• Experiment with new models, frameworks, and techniques, and help the team form an evidence-based view of what's hype and what's worth betting on
• Share what you learn: patterns, write-ups, brown-bag sessions; helping colleagues across OE raise their own AI fluency as you grow into it