Job description
AI Developer (Be the 1st AI Hire and build out the team)
Bracknell (Hybrid)
What if you could own and build the AI capability from the ground up in a scaling, purpose-driven tech company?
We’re hiring the first dedicated AI Engineer to join a fast-growing (~280 people) Healthtech organisation making a real-world impact. This is a rare opportunity to shape the AI strategy, design production-grade systems, and bring cutting-edge LLM-powered solutions into a live product environment.
The Role
You’ll sit at the intersection of AI, backend engineering, and cloud systems, designing and deploying intelligent features that directly impact users.
Expect to:
- Design and implement LLM-based applications (RAG pipelines, agents, copilots)
- Build scalable backend services using Python and Java
- Integrate AI into existing cloud-native SaaS platforms
- Own the full lifecycle: experimentation ? prototyping ? production
- Optimise model performance, cost, and latency in real-world environments
- Collaborate across engineering, product, and data teams to identify high-impact AI use cases
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years in software engineering, with strong experience in Python and/or Java
- Hands-on experience working with LLMs (prompt engineering, fine-tuning, embeddings, vector databases, RAG)
- Experience building and deploying applications in cloud environments (Azure preferred, AWS/GCP also considered)
- Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
- Familiarity with tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience working with data stores (SQL/NoSQL) and large datasets
- Bonus: experience with AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.)
Why Join?
- Be the first AI hire — real ownership and influence
- Work on meaningful, tech-for-good products
- Modern stack, forward-thinking leadership, strong growth trajectory
- Opportunity to define architecture, tooling, and best practices
Package
- Salary up to £95,000 (depending on experience)
- Bonus + private medical
- Bracknell-based hybrid working
Extra information
- Status
- Open
- Education Level
- Secondary School
- Location
- Reading
- Type of Contract
- Full-time jobs
- Published at
- 20-05-2026
- Full UK/EU driving license preferred
- No
- Car Preferred
- No
- Must be eligible to work in the EU
- No
- Cover Letter Required
- No
- Languages
- English
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