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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AI Engineer - **Company:** Jobtailor - **Location:** Leeds, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** .NET Framework, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), Databases, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Generative AI, Backend, Kubernetes, Machine Learning Operations - **Published:** August 26, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815186857-ai-engineer ## About the Role * Experience operating within a senior or lead software engineering position with a full stack developer background * Experience using React.Js * Azure Cloud experience of at least 5+ years * Exposure to building AI solutions, with experience shipping production solutions. * Ability to write clean, testable, and scalable code with Python, C# or JS. * Demonstrable production experience with AI Foundry Orchestration, LangChain, OneReach.ai or similar AI orchestration frameworks. * Proven experience developing AI agents and agentic workflows for commercial applications. * Experience leading technical projects from design through to production deployment. * Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to confidently present technical solutions and architectures to clients and senior stakeholders. ## Description Responsibilities * Lead the development of AI solutions across multiple client engagements. * Collaborate with Abstract Customer Engagement and clients to understand business challenges and translate them into AI-driven solutions. * Work with client data teams to ingest, clean, and prepare data for modeling. * Build and integrate AI solutions using Azure AI Foundry, OneReach.ai, LangChain or similar orchestration frameworks for conversational AI. * Design and optimise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, including embedding generation, vector database configuration, API, MCP and retrieval tuning to improve accuracy, latency, and relevance in conversational AI. * Prompt optimisation of closed source LLMs, or post-training of open-source LLMs to build new or improve existing agentic workflows. * Understand and guide on evaluation frameworks to measure model safety, accuracy, and performance, including recall, precision, F1-score, and other relevant metrics for both conversational AI and classification models. * Collaborate with our DevOps team to produce MLOps pipelines to speed up experimentation, deployment, and monitoring. * Ship AI models into live production environments and iterate rapidly based on usage, feedback, and metric-driven insights. * Write clean, testable, and scalable code in .NET or Python and integrate with backend services. * Stay up-to-date with the latest AI research and tools, applying them pragmatically to solve real problems. * Design and refine prompts, workflows, and evaluation frameworks for autonomous AI financial analysts. 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