Senior AI Software Engineer
Senior AI Software Engineer
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Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior AI Software Engineer with deep expertise in Python and a proven track record of building production-grade systems. This role is at the intersection of software engineering and applied AI where youll design and deliver end-to-end AI applications integrate large language models (LLMs) and provide technical leadership across teams.
The ideal candidate is a strong engineer first and foremost with the ability to write clean scalable and maintainable code in Python while also keeping pace with the fast-moving AI landscape.
Responsibilities
End-to-End Development: Design implement and deploy AI-powered applications with a strong emphasis on backend Python engineering.
Backend Systems: Build and maintain production services using Python (FastAPI SQL) ensuring modularity reliability and scalability.
AI/LLM Integration: Apply deep technical skills in LLM development (prompt engineering RAG vector databases agentic frameworks) to real-world problems.
Engineering Best Practices: Drive high standards in CI/CD testing version control and code quality to ensure production readiness.
Standardisation & Reuse: Establish reusable frameworks and components to accelerate AI solution development across teams.
Technical Leadership: Provide architectural direction perform in-depth code reviews and act as a trusted consultant to internal teams.
Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers fostering strong engineering skills and AI literacy.
Continuous Learning: Stay at the forefront of both Python engineering practices and emerging AI technologies.
Required Skills & Experience
Education: MSc (or equivalent) in Computer Science AI or related field.
Experience:
5 years of professional experience as a software engineer with strong Python development skills.
23 years hands-on experience with Generative AI/LLMs.
Technical Strengths:
Advanced Python programming skills (data structures concurrency performance optimization).
Backend frameworks (e.g. FastAPI) and relational databases (SQL).
Strong understanding of LLMs embeddings prompt engineering and agentic frameworks.
Expertise in CI/CD pipelines automated testing and production deployments.
Experience with cloud platforms (Azure GCP AWS).
Soft Skills:
Excellent communicator able to explain complex systems to diverse audiences.
Strong leadership and mentoring abilities.
Nice-to-Have Skills
AI evaluation and quality assurance experience.
MLOps skills including fine-tuning and monitoring AI models.
Cloud infrastructure management for AI workloads.
Frontend development (React/JavaScript).
Multi-cloud deployment expertise (Azure GCP AWS).
Qualifications :
- MSc (or equivalent) in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence or related field.
5 years of professional experience as a software engineer with strong Python development skills.
23 years hands-on experience with Generative AI/LLMs.
Additional Information :
Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:
- Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment
- Free access to Headspace a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
- Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause
- EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns mental wellbeing and more general queries around family work housing and health
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounts on gym membership
- Contributory pension scheme & death in service
Your Lifestyle - Its important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when youre enjoying your leisure time.
- Minimum of 27 days holiday per year
- Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme
- Discounts on gym membership nationwide
- Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
- Community support and charitable giving
Your Contribution - Were focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.
- Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our success
- Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
