Applied AI Engineer

Applied AI Engineer (C# .NET) - Nottingham - Hybrid (2 days a week in office) - £80,000 We''re working with an ambitious technology company developing intelligent software products used by thousands of customers across the UK and internationally. They''re investing heavily in AI and are looking for an Applied AI Engineer to help design, build and productionise AI-powered features within their existing .NET platform. This isn''t a research role. You''ll be taking cutting-edge AI capabilities and turning them into reliable, scalable software that delivers real commercial value. What you''ll be doing Design and develop AI-powered features within a modern C#/.NET application stack. Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI into customer-facing products. Build RAG pipelines using vector databases and semantic search. Develop APIs and backend services that support AI functionality at scale. Work closely with Product, Engineering and Data teams to deliver intelligent product capabilities. Evaluate AI outputs, improve reliability and implement guardrails and monitoring. Tech stack C# .NET 8/9 NET Core Azure Azure OpenAI OpenAI APIs Semantic Kernel Vector Databases SQL Server REST APIs Microservices Docker What we''re looking for Strong commercial experience developing backend applications in C# and .NET. Experience integrating AI or LLM technologies into production software. Understanding of RAG, embeddings, prompt engineering and vector search. Experience ..... full job details .....