Software / AI Engineer

Software / AI Engineer, C# and React (Hungerford, Berkshire)

KEY POINTS

Full time, hybrid, 3 days a week onsite in Hungerford, 2 from home

True full stack, React front end through C# and .NET APIs to SQL Server and Postgres

Real LLM integration work, models built into a shipping product rather than AI used to write code

Local and self hosted models, guardrails and model security all genuinely valued

Open to different levels, they are hiring on quality rather than years served

Salary up to £80,000 depending on experience

Right to work in the UK required

ABOUT THE CLIENT

We are supporting a long established international software business with a large UK engineering organisation. They build industry specific software used by tens of thousands of customers across distribution, automotive, retail and rental, and they have been doing it for decades.

They are now building out a core AI engineering capability and putting AI into their products at pace. This is a competitive market and their rivals are pushing AI first products out quickly, so these are hires that matter to the business rather than an innovation side project.

THE ROLE, SOFTWARE / AI ENGINEER

Hands on product engineering in a team led by an architect and a team lead, based out of their Hungerford office.

You will work across the full stack, React based front end, C# and .NET APIs, SQL Server and Postgres behind it, hosted on Azure or AWS. Alongside that you will be integrating large language models directly into the product.

One of the products in scope is a garage management system on the automotive side of the business, with the rental side also in focus.

WHAT THEY MEAN BY AI EXPERIENCE

Worth being direct about this, because it is the main thing they screen on.

They are not looking for people whose AI experience is using Claude, Cursor or Copilot to write code faster. That is assumed and it is part of how the team works day to day, but on its own it will not get you through the door.

They want engineers who have integrated LLMs into a live product or solution. If you have built something where a model is doing real work in front of customers, th...