Ryan Young
Associate Consultant
AI Developer
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East Anglia, England
Apply by 2 Oct 2025
£550 - £600 per day
Job Ref.: BH-55500
Job Description
Location - Cambridge
Hybrid working
Rate - Circa £550
We are looking for passionate and skilled Software Developers to join our Core AI Services team. In this role, you will help design, develop, and scale AI-enabling platform services and public APIs that are secure, reliable, and cloud-native. These services will act as foundational building blocks for AI adoption across our client's product portfolio and partner ecosystem.
You will part of a Scrum team to build innovative, standards-compliant, secure and production-grade AI capabilities, with a builder mindset - rapid prototyping and continuous improvement with agility of a start-up.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build scalable, fault-tolerant cloud-native services on Microsoft Azure, ensuring high performance and reliability.
- Develop secure, well-documented public APIs and SDKs for consumption by internal and external developers.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions across data pipelines, orchestration, and service APIs.
- Embed robust security controls to protect sensitive data and ensure secure access to AI services.
- Contribute to design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions to ensure engineering excellence.
- Mentor junior developers, encourage continuous learning, and contribute to a culture of innovation.
- Work with multiple teams to create AI solutions, which include AI model deployment, training, and AI tooling development.
- Experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs) and understanding of trade-offs between performance, cost, and capability.
- Understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agent orchestration, prompt engineering, and tool calling.
- Familiarity with AI standards such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent2Agent (A2A).
- Demonstrated experience with AI frameworks, tools and Python
- Strong knowledge or experience in working with various ML algorithms (regression, classification, clustering, deep learning)
- Knowledge of AI ethics and regulations (e.g., NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act), and commitment to responsible AI development.
- Fluent in developing code using AI Tools such as GitHub Copilot. Must be able to use prompt engineering to carry out multiple development tasks.
- Familiar with AI orchestration, including tools like AI Foundry and/or Semantic Kernel.
- Experience with tools for automated testing and evaluation of AI outputs is a plus.
- Experience in Python and AI frameworks / ools such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.
Core Skills and Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, preferably in platform or cloud-native service development using Microsoft and .NET technologies.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and associated PaaS services (e.g., Azure Functions, AKS, API Management).
- Strong expertise in RESTful API design, versioning, testing, and lifecycle management.
- Proficient in securing APIs, managing authentication/authorization and data privacy practices.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyse complex technical challenges and propose scalable solutions.
- Experience working in Agile teams and collaborating across global R&D locations
- Demonstrated ability to mentor junior team members fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation
- Demonstrated experience with AI frameworks, tools and Python