Senior AI Engineer (.NET)

Location: Bradford, United Kingdom; hybrid work

Company

hirify.global, a member of the DIC Group, develops packaging and graphic solutions, color and display technologies, functional products, electronic materials, and products for the automotive and healthcare industries.

What you will do

• Design, develop, test, and deliver AI-powered products and services using .NET, LLMs, agentic AI, machine learning, and workflow automation.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, production-ready applications that deliver measurable value.
• Drive adoption of LLMs, RAG, semantic search, prompt engineering, custom agents, and AI orchestration frameworks.
• Define reusable architectures, engineering standards, and best practices for AI development across products and shared platforms.
• Evaluate and improve AI solutions through model evaluation, feedback loops, and human-in-the-loop processes.
• Advise Product teams, engineers, SMEs, and business stakeholders; review technical designs, mentor colleagues, and help establish an AI center of excellence.

Requirements

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to translate business requirements into practical AI-driven solutions.
• Senior-level hands-on experience designing, building, testing, and delivering production-grade software and AI solutions.
• Strong expertise in LLMs, applied AI, prompt engineering, RAG, semantic search, AI orchestration, and agent-based systems.
• Ability to select the appropriate approach across AI, machine learning, automation, rules-based logic, and traditional software development.
• Understanding of responsible AI principles, including privacy, security, transparency, bias, human oversight, reliability, and risk management.
• Experience using business and domain data to improve AI accuracy, performance, and business value.
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks, feedback loops, and human-in-the-loop processes for continuous improvement.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership, collaborate with technical and business stakeholders, communicate complex concepts clearly, and mentor others.

Nice to have

• Experience with .NET, Azure AI services, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Machine Learning, SQL Server, cloud-native development, Semantic Kernel, and production AI/ML deployments.
• Experience contributing to shared platforms, reusable services, and architectural standards across multiple products.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement based in Bradford.
• Opportunity to shape AI capabilities across products, teams, and client solutions.
• Collaboration with Product teams, engineers, subject-matter experts, and business stakeholders.
• Focus on responsible, secure, private, transparent, reliable, and risk-aware AI development.
• Employment with hirify.global, part of the DIC Group.