Senior AI Software Engineer

You will work in a small, fast-paced team that releases changes multiple times a day. The successful applicant will be an excellent problem solver, a strong team player, and a proven ability to take big projects from conception to production.

• Manage a team of Software Engineers and Data Scientists
• Own projects from end-to-end, from first conversations with users through to production systems
• Work with modelling and data teams to embed proprietary insights into production systems
• Deploy agentic systems that enable fast, multi-dimensional, data-driven decisions

• 10+ years developing impactful, mission-critical backend systems
• The ability to work in fast-paced, high-ownership environments
• Excellence in one or more language (we mostly use Python)
• Strong discipline in testing and automation
• Experienced, judicious user of AI coding tools
• Previous experience managing teams of 5+ engineers
• An exceptional team player - low-ego, high-initiative
• Genuine interest in the transformation of energy markets and infrastructure, * Hands-on experience building LLM-based systems
• Experience testing non-deterministic systems
• Understanding of statistics and inferential methods
• LangGraph, RAG, MCP, MLOps, IaaC, AWS

Aurora helps governments, investors, and utilities make billion-dollar decisions on the journey to net-zero. Based in Oxford, you will work in a dynamic and growing engineering organisation that builds cloud-based software to track and model power grids around the world.

As a Software Engineer on the AI team you will build systems where LLMs autonomously plan, and call tools, to navigate large, multi-dimensional, fast-evolving data. Your work will amplify the value of Aurora’s data, models, and forecasts to researchers, investors, and policy-makers around the world, and directly impact the decisions that drive the decarbonisation of grids around the world.