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# AI Engineer

- **Company:** The Crowd
- **Location:** Bradford, UK
- **Salary:** £60,000.0 - £70,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** .NET Framework, Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Machine Learning, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure Machine Learning, Search Technologies, Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Prompt Engineering, Azure Service Fabric
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5783961867

## About the Role

supportable and suitable for real-world production use. Key Skills * Strong software engineering experience, with the ability to design, build, test and deliver production-quality services. * Hands-on experience building solutions using LLMs, machine learning or applied AI techniques to solve practical business problems. * Experience with prompt engineering, retrieval augmented generation, semantic search, AI workflow orchestration or agent-based approaches. * Experience working with business or domain data to ground, evaluate and improve AI outputs. * Ability to design feedback loops, evaluation approaches and human-in-the-loop processes to improve AI solution quality over time. * Strong understanding of responsible AI considerations, including privacy, security, hallucination risk, bias, transparency and appropriate human oversight. * Experience working collaboratively with Product teams, engineers and subject matter experts to shape ideas into deliverable software. Desired Skills

 * Experience working with Azure PaaS services, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search or Azure Machine Learning. * Experience with .NET, SQL Server and cloud-native application development. * Knowledge of Semantic Kernel or similar AI orchestration frameworks. * Experience deploying and operating AI or ML-enabled services in production environments. Salary: £60-70,000+ (we will consider more, dependant on experience) Location: Bradford (1 day a week) CV are being shortlisted with a view to start interviews from week commencing 6th July, and an anticipated start date of August

## Description

NLP | LLM | RAG | AI | ML My client is currently looking for an AI Engineer, to play a key role in designing, building and embedding AI-enabled capabilities across digital products and shared platforms. You will focus on the practical application of large language models, machine learning and related technologies to solve real business problem, such as, improving product intelligence and responding to growing customer demand. Key Deliverables * Design, build and deliver production-ready AI-enabled features and services that support the product strategy and business objectives. * Take AI ideas from discovery through to working software, using practical engineering judgement to balance value, complexity, cost, risk and maintainability. * Build solutions using large language models, machine learning and supporting technologies to improve throughput, automate knowledge-intensive processes and enhance product intelligence. * Ensure the solutions you build are secure, reliable


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