Capgemini

Senior AI Software Engineer (Azure)

Capgemini
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2 days ago
Manchester, United Kingdom +2 moreSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, deploy, and support agentic AI applications and multi-agent systems on Microsoft Azure.
  • Develop production-grade AI-enabled services and APIs in Python and C#/.NET, integrating agents and models with enterprise applications and data sources.
  • Apply prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, agent orchestration, tool-calling, and function-calling patterns.
  • Implement guardrails, content safety, evaluation, monitoring, observability, governance, and responsible AI controls.
  • Integrate Azure-native services and CI/CD pipelines, and support LLMOps practices including versioning, automated evaluation, and deployment pipelines.
  • Act as a technical voice for architects, product owners, and client stakeholders; translate business problems into solution designs and explain technical trade-offs.
  • Own solutions across the full lifecycle, account for compliance and audit requirements, and provide production support.
  • Mentor and pair with less experienced colleagues.

Requirements

  • Production experience building and supporting live LLM-based applications on Azure, beyond proof-of-concept work.
  • Strong production coding experience in Python and/or C#/.NET, including API and backend service development.
  • Practical depth in retrieval-augmented generation, including chunking, embedding strategy, retrieval tuning, and groundedness and accuracy evaluation.
  • Client-facing delivery experience and the ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-engineering stakeholders.
  • Experience or developing breadth across Semantic Kernel, LangGraph, and AutoGen for agent orchestration.
  • Judgement in selecting proprietary and open-weight models based on cost, latency, and quality.
  • Experience with multi-agent systems, containerisation, orchestration, vector search, LLMOps, MLOps, automated evaluation, data privacy, security, compliance, responsible AI, and GDPR considerations is relevant.
  • Eligibility to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance, including continuous UK residence for the last five years and satisfaction of other clearance requirements.

Benefits

  • UK-wide role with work across varied client domains and regulated sectors.
  • Core and flexible benefits plus access to the Applaud peer recognition portal.
  • Wellbeing support including Mental Health Champions and access to Thrive and Peppy wellbeing apps.
  • Disability Confident Employer Level 2 commitment, including an interview offer to qualifying candidates who declare a disability.
  • Appointment is subject to obtaining SC clearance and pre-employment checks.

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About Capgemini

10,000+ employees

Capgemini is a global IT services and consulting firm that delivers strategy, cloud, AI, software engineering, and managed services to large enterprises and public-sector clients. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Paris, it is publicly traded on Euronext Paris and operates in 50+ countries. The group expanded its engineering capabilities by acquiring Altran in 2020, now operating as Capgemini Engineering.

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