Senior Applied AI Engineer (.NET)

Senior Applied AI Engineer (.NET) <p>We're looking for a Senior Applied AI Engineer to design and deliver production-grade AI-powered features within a modern .NET product environment.</p><p>This is a hands-on engineering role focused on applying AI in real systems - not training models. You'll work with commercial AI platforms such as Anthropic Claude, AWS Bedrock, and OpenAI to build reliable, scalable, and observable features that ship to users.</p><p>You'll also play a key role in shaping how AI is adopted across the engineering team - setting standards, introducing tooling, and leading by example through high-quality, AI-assisted development practices.</p><p>This role suits someone who has already successfully integrated AI into production products and can bring proven patterns into a growing team.</p> What You'll Do <ul><li>Design and build AI-powered product features within a C# / .NET ecosystem</li><li>Integrate commercial AI APIs into production systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, and cost control</li><li>Establish and promote best practices for applied AI engineering across the codebase</li><li>Lead by example using AI-assisted development workflows</li><li>Support and mentor engineers adopting tools such as Claude Code or Cursor</li><li>Build systems with strong observability, logging, and guardrails</li><li>Contribute to clean, well-structured, and versioned RESTful APIs</li><li>Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to deliver user-facing AI capabilities</li></ul> Must Have <ul><li>7+ years of commercial software engineering experience</li><li>5+ years working with C# / .NET (Core)</li><li>Proven experience designing and shipping AI integrations in production</li><li>Strong experience integrating paid AI APIs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock)</li><li>Demonstrated ability to set patterns and standards adopted by other engineers</li><li>Hands-on experience introducing AI-assisted development tools into a team</li><li>Strong REST API design skills (clean, versioned, observable)</li><li>Solid SQL experience (MariaDB or MySQL)</li><li>A strong focus on quality, resilience, and maintainability</li></ul> Nice to Have <ul><li>Experience with AWS (EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, Bedrock)</li><li>Practical experience with prompt design, iteration, and evaluation</li><li>Familiarity with structured outputs, tool use, or function calling</li><li>Frontend exposure (JavaScript, Vue, Nuxt 3)</li><li>Experience working in microservices or distributed systems</li><li>Familiarity with Shape Up methodology</li><li>Awareness of secure-by-design principles (e.g. ISO 27001)</li></ul> Not the Right Fit If You <ul><li>Focus on training or fine-tuning models rather than applying them</li><li>Come from a purely data science or research background</li><li>Prefer Python-heavy environments and don't want to work in .NET</li><li>Are sceptical of AI-assisted development workflows</li><li>Haven't worked with commercial AI APIs in production</li><li>Are looking for a strategy-only or non-hands-on role</li></ul> Why Join Us <ul><li>Work on real-world AI features used in production</li><li>Be part of a team where AI is treated as an engineering discipline, not a buzzword</li><li>Influence how AI is adopted across the organisation</li><li>Hybrid working (2 days in the office)</li><li>Dedicated training and development budget</li><li>Clear opportunities for career progression</li></ul><p>If you want to build high-quality, production AI systems and help shape how modern engineering teams apply AI in practice, we'd love to hear from you.</p> Senior Applied AI Engineer (.NET)<img src="https://www.jobg8.com/Tracking.aspx?kvKO%2fmG%2frVrw8jDvtKRCea4sCP3rjeekg" width="0" height="0" />