AI Software Engineer

AI Software Engineer - Contract (Inside IR35)
Up to £650/day · Inside IR35 · 6 months (strong likelihood of extension) · Mostly remote - 2 days/month in Glasgow bi-weekly.

Our client, a large Scottish enterprise business, has established a new AI function. This is a genuine hands-on build opportunity - not a design-and-handoff role - sitting within a defined, multi-initiative roadmap with a clear pipeline of work well beyond the initial contract term. This role calls for a strong .NET developer who also brings Python and AI/agentic experience - .NET is the priority skill, with AI depth as the key differentiator.

You'll join a small, newly-formed AI team (three engineers plus a manager) where each person owns one initiative end-to-end, from design through to production build. This is a hands-on implementation role for someone who wants to build, not just architect.

• Own and deliver one initiative from the roadmap end-to-end - options span product/sales automation, a data-heavy telemetry and analytics build, and an agentic workflow build for a legal function
• Design, build, and deploy genuine agentic AI systems - not just chatbot or single-turn LLM integrations
• Work primarily within Azure AI Foundry and Semantic Kernel for orchestration, with the flexibility to draw on AWS and Google Vertex/Gemini where relevant (enterprise accounts already in place across all three)
• Some front-end work in .NET MVC (internal-facing tooling), alongside Python-first backend and AI/agentic development

• Strong hands-on .NET development background (MVC)
• Solid Python development skills, ideally with production LLM/GenAI experience
• Proven experience designing, building, and deploying agentic AI systems - RAG pipelines, tool-using agents, multi-step orchestration - is a strong differentiator between candidates
• Comfortable working across cloud platforms - Azure preferred, but AWS and Google Cloud experience is equally valued
• Self-sufficient and comfortable owning a project independently, with minimal day-to-day oversight

• Rate: £550- £650/day, dependent on experience
• Contract: Inside IR35
• Duration: 6 months initial, with strong likelihood of extension given the volume of roadmap work
• Location: mostly remote - approximately 1-2 days per month required on-site in Glasgow

Interested? Get in touch for the full spec and a confidential conversation about which initiative would suit your background best.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.