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# AI System Developer - AD2921

- **Company:** University of St Andrews
- **Location:** St Andrews, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £32,080.0 - £37,694.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Encodings, EHealth, Software Engineering, Data Logging, Large Language Models, Information Technology, Codebase, Software Version Control
- **Published:** September 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=90a8b36a7a994dd9

## About the Role

The successful applicant will have a good first degree in computer science, software engineering, data science or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience, and will be comfortable working within an existing codebase and with LLM or conversational-AI APIs. Experience of digital health, or of safeguarding features in conversational systems, is desirable.

## Description

* Adapt the existing SimPatient platform for patient-facing use, so that it administers the FCR4 screening tool and triggers the scripted MiniAFTERc intervention above threshold.
 * Encode the manualised MiniAFTERc intervention as a conversational flow, revising prompts and scripts in response to fidelity review.
 * Extend the platform's safeguarding behaviour for patient-facing risk (e.g. suicidal ideation), including escalation messaging.
 * Configure logging and export of transcripts and scores for the pilot analyses, and maintain version control, tests and documentation.


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