AI Engineer

Job Description

AI Engineer to join the in-house technology team for this large, professional services business based in their Birmingham office. This is a hands-on engineering role building and deploying production-grade AI applications. You’ll see your work in real operations quickly, with AI tools adopted directly by internal business teams.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll design, build and maintain AI-powered applications, agents and automated workflows, integrating Large Language Models into real business processes. You’ll work across the full development lifecycle – from API design and data access through to AI integration, orchestration and cloud deployment.

Day-to-day this includes:

• Building and maintaining AI agents, multi-step workflows and automation pipelines
• Integrating LLMs via OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude or equivalent
• Developing Python-based services and RESTful APIs
• Connecting AI systems with internal platforms using APIs and event-driven architectures
• Deploying and maintaining applications in Microsoft Azure
• Contributing to engineering standards, CI/CD pipelines and production reliability
• Collaborating with stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable solutions

What we’re looking for

• Strong commercial Python engineering experience
• Proven experience building production AI/LLM applications or agents
• LLM integration experience – OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic or equivalent
• REST API development and system integration experience
• Microsoft Azure deployment experience
• Understanding of agent patterns, orchestration and tool use
• CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows and automated testing
• Clear communicator comfortable working across technical and business teams

Bonus points for

• FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Redis
• Copilot Studio or Azure AI Foundry
• Docker, Kubernetes or Azure Container Apps
• Prompt engineering and LLM optimisation
• Experience in a regulated or professional services environment
• Agile delivery

The environment

You’ll join a collaborative in-house technology function within a leading professional services business. The team sits at the centre of the organisation’s AI ambitions – building real solutions used daily by internal teams, not just running pilots.