AI Software Engineer
$45,000–$90,000 year
HybridCambridge, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Research and evaluate emerging AI technologies, then design, prototype, and implement AI-powered product features across cloud and device-based systems. Develop production-quality software handling audio, video, and text processing while collaborating with engineers, product managers, and designers to shape technical architecture. Participate in code reviews, monitor feature performance in production, and balance research/prototyping with engineering delivery. Work on challenges spanning multimodal AI, LLMs, RAG, and transformer models within a collaborative R&D environment. Hybrid schedule requires minimum four days in office in Cambridge, UK.
Required Qualifications
- A degree in a subject with high Computer Science content, or equivalent experience
- Achieved AAA at A Level or international equivalent
- Proven commercial experience in software engineering, AI engineering, machine learning or closely related areas
- Strong programming ability with confidence in quickly learning new technologies and languages
- Interest and exposure across AI technologies such as machine learning, LLMs, RAG systems, computer vision, multimodal AI or transformer architectures
- Ability to work across both research/prototyping and production engineering
- Strong problem-solving ability and analytical thinking
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work within a collaborative R&D environment
- Genuine passion for emerging AI technologies and product innovation
- You use AI tools all the time in your everyday life - Claude, GPT, etc.
- Minimum of 4 days a week in office
- Location: Cambridge, UK
Desired Qualifications
- A PhD from a top university
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